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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus man was found guilty Friday of killing two women in the 1990s, according to the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Robert Edwards, 68, was found guilty of two counts of murder, one count of aggravated murder and rape related to the deaths of Alma Lake and Michelle Dawson.
Both murder cases went cold until 2021 when the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation linked Edward’s DNA to DNA that was found inside both victims.
Regina Dawson told 10TV that she feels free and like she can live now after the man who killed her mother, Michelle, on Nov. 7, 1996, was found guilty.
"It was one month one day before my 18th birthday,” Regina said.
Michelle was found dead off the side of a road in Licking County. The coroner’s office determined a combination of factors caused her death, including compression around her neck.
"I went to school, I went to track practice, then I went to work, and when I was at work, I'm hearing it on the radio... them talking about they found a Jane Doe off of James Road not knowing it was my mother,” Regina said.
She said for years she and her family were left with more questions than answers as to who her mother’s killer was.
"We searched, we looked, couldn't find anything."
Two years ago, DNA found on her mother’s body was linked to Robert Edwards. His DNA was also consistent with the body of Alma Lake, who was found dead in June of 1991 in Franklin County.
"Alma Lake and most definitely my mom had people that loved them, that wasn't just going to let this go."
Regina said when she found out her mother’s killer had been arrested, she was relieved. On Friday, she said that feeling was much stronger.
She said she now feels in control of her life again. She added that despite Edwards seeming to show no remorse in the courtroom Friday, she feels sorry for his family.
"Because now they have to live with the fact of knowing that their father or grandfather, uncle, nephew, cousin did something like this."
She said she can now focus on the happy memories and keeping her mother’s memory alive for her kids.
"I'm the woman I am today because of her. Even though she didn't get to be here to help mold me into the woman that I am, she still had a big part to play."
Edwards sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 9. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/robert-edwards-found-guilty-of-killing-2-women-in-1990s/530-80617a6d-6ccb-41be-be6c-40d922272ec2 | 2023-07-15T21:00:38 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/robert-edwards-found-guilty-of-killing-2-women-in-1990s/530-80617a6d-6ccb-41be-be6c-40d922272ec2 |
TAMPA, Fla. — While catastrophic collapses from sinkholes are rare, they can still pose a threat.
In Tampa Bay, an area known as "sinkhole alley" due to favorable conditions, many homeowners may not realize they don't have sinkhole coverage until it's too late.
This week, a sinkhole in Seffner opened up for the third time in ten years. The collapse killed 37-year-old Jeffrey Bush in 2013.
Tampa Bay tops the list in the majority of claims for sinkholes, said Mark Friedlander with the Insurance Information Institute.
"Sinkhole coverage is not included in a standard home insurance policy," Friedlander said." However, state of Florida law requires all insurers to offer."
Friedlander said the numbers differ per person, but on average, a single sinkhole coverage policy could cost about $5,000. However, claims run well more than $100,000.
"Is it worth, say, $5,000 added to your policy? That's what each homeowner has to decide if they want to take the chance, just like any other insurance," Friedlander said.
Sinkhole insurance coverage is an add-on, also called an endorsement. The coverage is also an additional deductible.
It is not included in what's called "catastrophic ground cover collapse" coverage, which has to meet certain criteria for coverage.
"Certainly, it's a serious problem, but with a little bit of due diligence, most of us are safe and we can buy homes feeling rather secure," Dr. Tony Randazzo, professor emeritus of geological sciences at the University of Florida, said.
Randazzo said there are several ways to survey whether your home is on land prone to sinkholes. For instance, contacting a geological consulting firm or a civil engineering firm can be an option.
Randazzo notes the catastrophic collapses are rare, testing can verify the true risks your home faces. He notes if there are no symptoms of distress, the area is generally safe, but there are factors that may cause such symptoms.
The Florida Geological Survey is one resource concerned homeowners may look into. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/sinkhole-insurance-coverage-seffner/67-fa91ce05-6647-4e7f-ae10-e2bce8a69608 | 2023-07-15T21:00:40 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/sinkhole-insurance-coverage-seffner/67-fa91ce05-6647-4e7f-ae10-e2bce8a69608 |
Meet our Mid-Valley: Vivian Ang shares her passion for literacy
This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community.
Vivian Ang failed the third grade because she couldn’t read.
She believes that was largely because for the first three years of her schooling, her teacher approached reading instruction using the "whole language" method. While the method works for some, it did not work for Ang.
When she repeated the third grade, she had a new teacher who focused on phonics.
The experience stuck with Ang, now the director of Salem's Mid-Valley Literacy Center, which aims to teach adults the literacy skills needed to increase their quality of life and economic stability.
“That kind of motivated me to understand that there are a lot of folks who have issues with reading … that they have to have help, as I did,” she said.
Founding Salem's Mid-Valley Literacy Center
Ang graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in animal science. She was sure she was going to be a vet.
Instead, she has spent the past two decades working with immigrants, learning Spanish and striving to improve adult literacy in the region and across the state.
After receiving her bachelor's degree, Ang went on to receive additional credits in Bilingual Education and Cross-Cultural Communications from Portland State University and Western Oregon University.
She worked for nine years as a coordinator for the Literacy Volunteer Program at Chemeketa Community College Santiam Center. When Chemeketa Community College decided to close the literacy volunteer program, Ang knew the work could not stop.
“Truthfully, I had no intention of starting a nonprofit,” Ang said. “I did not want to do it. I kept saying to God, ‘Please find somebody else.'”
Despite her hesitance, the Mid-Valley Literacy Center opened its doors in 2009.
It outgrew its first space at a church in Keizer and moved into the East Salem Community Center in 2016. Ang said 14 years in, she does not regret committing to run the nonprofit.
She loves seeing people change their lives.
Teaching literacy skills to thousands of adult students
Her team has helped thousands of adults, including people from 60 countries and at least 30 languages. A majority of students are Latino, but the center is open to anybody — as long as they’re adults, Ang said.
Nearly 800 tutors have been trained and have volunteered at the literacy center over the years — 793 to be exact.
The Mid-Valley Literacy Center is not attempting to supplant schools, Ang emphasized, but instead is geared to adults who have faced barriers or could fall through the cracks.
This past Tuesday, the center was celebrating more students passing their citizenship test, one of the several programs available.
Improving adult literacy does not only benefit one individual but the entire community, Ang said.
"We just delight in helping people," she said.
Classes at the Mid-Valley Literacy Center include English at all levels, Spanish and English GED, computer basics, and the Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos or INEA course geared to teaching native Spanish speakers how to read and write in Spanish.
The center will also prepare students for their citizenship exams and offers pre-CNA classes for English Language Learners looking to become certified nursing assistants.
There are never more than 10 students in each class, allowing students to connect with their tutors. And bigger classes can be intimidating, Ang said.
In the coming months, Ang hopes to expand their workplace literacy program.
Those classes are off-site and focus on improving safety on worksites. Ang said the curriculum is customized for each business, with tutors going on-site and teaching English around vocabulary specific to their work. Tutors also teach Spanish if an employer wishes to be able to communicate better with employees or clients.
Examples of businesses they've helped span cabinet-making, agriculture and pie makers.
The program not only makes sites safer but improves productivity, Ang said, eliminating barriers that could affect a worker and their performance.
Businesses can reach out to the center for more information. Anyone looking to tutor or donate can email info@midvalleyliteracycenter.org, visit midvalleyliteracy.org or call (503) 463-1488.
If you have an idea for someone we should profile for this series, please email Statesman Journal senior news editor Alia Beard Rau at arau@gannett.com
Dianne Lugo covers the Oregon Legislature and equity issues. Reach her atdlugo@statesmanjournal.com or on Twitter @DianneLugo. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/mid-valley-literacy-center-salem-oregon-vivian-ang-resources-education/70407184007/ | 2023-07-15T21:07:25 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/mid-valley-literacy-center-salem-oregon-vivian-ang-resources-education/70407184007/ |
Faced with decision of where to let homeless people camp, Turner doesn't choose a site
Faced with decision of where to let homeless people camp, one city doesn't chose a site
The debate has raged for months in Turner: what public property should the city designate to allow people who are homeless to camp.
Each potential site that was identified brought people who argued why that site shouldn’t be used. Few alternative sites were given.
Ultimately, a decision was made, but a site wasn’t chosen.
At a heated city council meeting held at the Turner Fire District headquarters Thursday night, the council voted 4-3 to allow city administrator Scott McClure to designate a place for people who want to camp in the city.
“But when you say, we’re going to have camps, we don’t know that,” Mayor Steve Horning said. “What’s going to bring people out of Salem or Portland to Turner, Oregon, when we don’t have resources to take care of them?”
Cities in Oregon have passed ordinances that state where and for how long homeless people can stay in response to state legislation and federal court rulings.
Agreeing on where to allow that in Turner has been contentious.
“This is painful,” said councilor Mike Schaufler, a former state representative in Clackamas County. “No matter what we do, nobody’s going to like it. ... But we got to do something because we have to comply with the law or be sued.”
Schaufler blamed Democrats in cities like Portland, Salem and Eugene for causing cities like to Turner to have to respond to the changes surrounding homeless camping.
Turner is a city of 2,400 located a couple miles southeast of Salem.
Each time a potential site was brought to the city council, people who lived nearby gave vocal opposition.
The council looked at David Sawyer Park – formerly Turner Park – then a city-owned gravel lot at Third Street and Delaney Road.
“My biggest concern is if you put it on Third and Delaney and we start getting homeless people in, that’s going to be the image of the city,” resident Charles Mead said. “And do we want that image?”
The ordinance the city council decided on imposes many restrictions on how long people are allowed to camp.
Turner will allow people to camp for 72 hours in a calendar year. Each person must leave by 7:30 a.m. each day and not return until 7 p.m. It also has a list of other requirements such as picking up after themselves and adhering to a noise curfew.
“We rarely have people coming through. It’s rare when we actually see someone sleeping here,” McClure said. “The police department is good at moving people into Salem where they have services. We’re hoping that regardless of where you pick, no one is really going to notice.”
Schaufler moved to enact the city ban camping on every public space except the gravel parking lot of the public works building.
But that motion failed.
Now people who want to camp in the city will have to ask the city staff where they can.
“We haven’t had anybody ask us to sleep or show up to sleep,” Horning said.
Bill Poehler covers Marion and Polk County for the Statesman Journal. Contact him at bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/turner-oregon-doesnt-choose-site-for-homeless-to-camp/70415751007/ | 2023-07-15T21:07:31 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/turner-oregon-doesnt-choose-site-for-homeless-to-camp/70415751007/ |
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an economic development Statement of Intent with the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and Foreign Nationals Abroad Olivier Becht while in Paris on Friday.
The stop was the final on a European tour for Abbott, his wife, First Lady Cecilia Abbott, and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson to promote economic partnerships between Texas and various European nations.
“Collaborating with our economic partners around the globe will ensure the Texas economy continues to flourish. By signing this statement of intent, it will encourage foreign business investment, promote economic development projects and increase trade opportunities between Texas and France. Forging strong economic bonds with reliable partners is more important now than ever. Texas is proud to have that strong partnership with France. Working together, we will bring more economic development opportunities to Texas from France than ever before,” Gov. Abbott said in a statement.
Abbott was joined by a Texas delegation that included the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism Executive Director Adriana Cruz and Texas Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors Vice Chairman Arun Agarwal.
France was the last stop in Abbott's economic development mission, which included trips to Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The delegation participated in a total of 20 meetings and events during the five-day trip. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 | 2023-07-15T21:10:39 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Despite scattered rainfall, the American Jet Sports Association (AJSA) is hosting a portion of its Southern Summer Series this weekend in the Tri-Cities, and residents are invited to spectate the water racing at Winged Deer Park.
The group and its national competitors rolled into town on Friday, but the adrenaline-pumping water sport happens in Johnson City through Sunday evening, according to AJSA leaders.
Racing happens all day on Sunday starting at 10 a.m., and the Pro Main Event kicks off at 1 p.m.
AJSA officials told News Channel 11 that the hills of Winged Deer Park are perfect for sitting back and watching the water racing.
“We’ve got one of the best spectator viewing areas, we’ve got these big grassy areas,” said AJSA announcer Glenn Elliott. “So tomorrow, we hope to see a big crowd down here and maybe we’ll get some new racers, local racers. If you’re into jet skiing, come on down and race with the AJSA in the southern summer series right here in Johnson City, Tennessee.”
The event in Johnson City serves as rounds seven and eight of the racing series. AJSA officials said Tri-Cities residents are invited to spectate on Sunday for a $10 gate fee. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/american-jet-sports-association-hosts-water-racing-in-johnson-city/ | 2023-07-15T21:14:22 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/american-jet-sports-association-hosts-water-racing-in-johnson-city/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — FunFest is continuing until July 22 in Kingsport, and festival-goers were treated to a Downtown Street Fair on Saturday.
Spread across Market, Broad and Main streets, the Downtown Street Fair had an activity or performance to suit everyone.
Main events consisted of dance performances and musical entertainment from international exhibitors.
“Our region has folks from all over the globe living in it, so with our international exhibitors, you can find out more about their culture, their music, their art, even their food,” said Senior Director of the Downtown Kingsport Association Robin Cleary.
Along with dancing, music and international food trucks, the street fair featured aerial trapeze artists, Irish step dancers, a Chalk Walk and Touch-a-Truck for kids.
FunFest continues through July 22, including three nights of main-stage concerts to end the annual festival. More details and a full schedule of events can be found on FunFest.net. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/funfest-continues-saturday-with-downtown-street-fair/ | 2023-07-15T21:14:28 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/funfest-continues-saturday-with-downtown-street-fair/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Kingsport Carousel is turning 8 years old, and city leaders invited the community to celebrate on Saturday with free rides, birthday-themed temporary tattoos and cookies.
According to the Kingsport Office of Cultural Arts, the Kingsport Carousel was finished in 2015 after more than 300 volunteers spent five years hand-carving and painting components of the authentic, vintage 1956 Herschell carousel.
Carousel staff said that after 8 years, the attraction remains a local favorite for kids, adults and families alike.
“It is like a treasured tradition now, here in Kingsport, now that we’re on our 8th birthday,” Heather Buckley, Carousel & Cultural Arts Secretary, said. “I truly think that carousels are something that anyone of any age can enjoy.”
The ride’s platform depicts hand paintings of Kingsport’s history, such as Church Circle and the Allandale Mansion. Since its 2015 unveiling, the carousel has reportedly hosted more than 385,000 visitors. Rides are still only one dollar per person, and the attraction is open to the public year-round.
The Kingsport Carousel is located at the farmers market pavilion at 350 Clinchfield Street. It’s open Wednesday through Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. More details on the carousel can be found by visiting EngageKingsport.com or calling 423-392-8414. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-carousel-celebrates-its-8th-birthday/ | 2023-07-15T21:14:34 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-carousel-celebrates-its-8th-birthday/ |
Solving a Rubik’s Cube is usually as far as most people get.
But for those gathered Saturday at the University of Arizona campus to compete in the 2023 AZ Speedcubing Summer, completing the popular mechanical puzzle within seconds is considered, well, just average.
Saturday’s competition, an official event organized by the World Cube Association in conjunction with AZ Speedcubing, was the first in Tucson since December 2022. It drew 125 participants from five countries .
“I really enjoy having that involvement in the cubing community,” said Mia Sponseller, a 19-year-old incoming junior at the UA.
“I just really love competing, and a big part of having a good competition is the delegates who help run the competition. [We] do a lot of the organizational work ahead of time and the day off to make sure the competition runs smoothly,” said Sponseller, a junior delegate of the WCA and an organizer of Saturday's event.
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Founded in 2004, the World Cube Association hosts “twisty puzzle” competitions across the world, a term often used by the WCA to describe “mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces.”
The organization is volunteer led from top to bottom, with over 100,000 unique competitors from 140 countries having competed in events around the globe.
Those who reached the podiums at the end of the day Saturday were set to take home gift cards to SpeedCubeShop, the event’s sponsor.
But that’s not what most participants are out for. The all want to be faster.
"My friend brought his Rubik's Cube to school and showed me to how to solve it and I've just been kind of fascinated ever since," said Jameson Warner, 15, a first-time competitor. "He told me about today's event and I thought, 'I should sign up for that.' I'd like to get a sub-10-second 2x2 time and a sub-30-second 3x3 time today."
The first, and most popular event of the day was the the 3x3x3 cube, in which all but two of the day's competitors participated. For non-cubers, the 3x3x3 cube is most commonly known as the Rubik's Cube. Each event consists of two groups, red and blue, which competitors are placed in ahead of time. Each of the six events have at least two rounds and scoring is based on the times of puzzlers' solves.
For example, the first round of the 3x3x3 event is based on an average of competitors' five attempts, or Ao5 for short. The top 48 times from each group will advance to the second round, which from there only the top 12 from each group will advance to the final round.
These are not traditional head-to-head competitions, rather it's based on the individual and how well they do.
Speedcubers will wait for their time to compete depending on their group. From there organizers will take their cubes, which participants provide themselves, and scramble them using a computer program.
Once a competitor is called to a table, they sit down in front of what is called a Stackmat, which is a timer that is used to start and stop the speedcuber's attempt. The participant gets up to inspect the puzzle at first, before setting it down on the mat and resting their hands on two pads towards the front of the mat.
Once they lift their hands off the Stackmat, the timer begins, and is only stopped once they bring their hands back to their original position. Times are recorded by both the mat and the digital reader towards the front of the table, so both the participants and spectators can watch.
"[I] built a Lego robot that would solve Rubik's Cubes and I learned how to solve it, too," said Matthias Braley, 16, also a first-time participant of speedcubing competitions. "[My favorite] is the 3x3, it's the one I've practiced the most on.
"My average is 18 seconds." The current world record on the 3X3 is held by Max Park with an official time of 3.13 seconds.
Other events throughout included for the 6x6x6 and 2x2x2 cubes, as well as three twisty puzzles with some very unique qualities.
“The Megaminx is definitely my favorite,” said Sponseller, who is ranked no. 103 in the nation with a best time of 46.52 seconds. “It’s very similar in the way that you build it and solve a 3x3x3, it’s just very daunting at first.”
The Megaminx is a dodecahedron-shaped puzzle, meaning that is has 12 mult-colored sides. Due to its added dimensions, the Megaminx has a total of 50 arrangeable pieces, as opposed to the 20 movable pieces on a standard Rubik's Cube. Each star-shaped side represents a color, and the solved state of this puzzle is just like a Rubik's Cube.
“It’s a little dauting at first, because it’s a little hard to understand the concept of how to solve one,” said Sponseller. “Ultimately, it’s a lot more like a normal puzzle than a Rubiks Cube-type puzzle.”
With the CubingUSA Nationals set for later this month in Pittsburgh, delegates Jake Roberts and Ivan Vanek will be getting some much-needed practice in the five and six events they each are competing in Saturday, respectively.
Upcoming WCA-sanctioned events in Arizona include Bring the Heat AZ 2023 in August, as well as Intents Cubing Grand Canyon 2023 in September.
Results of today’s event were to be submitted to WCA Live, which you can find here.
"Anyone can become a speedcuber, our community has a lot of diverse traits," said Sponseller. "You just have to be determined enough to put that effort into solving a Rubik's Cube the first time. It's daunting to a lot of people, but once you learn the process and see the steps broken down it becomes a lot easier." | https://tucson.com/news/local/speedcubing-tucson-rubiks-cube-arizona/article_6ffb55e2-2100-11ee-bc2c-336242a1a25a.html | 2023-07-15T21:21:04 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/speedcubing-tucson-rubiks-cube-arizona/article_6ffb55e2-2100-11ee-bc2c-336242a1a25a.html |
At least 40 proposals that would make it easier or harder for developers and water users to prove the existence of an assured 100-year water supply confronts a state advisory committee representing a wide array of interests.
Some proposals would at least slightly open the doors to development in areas near Phoenix that were recently closed. The state's action last month to limit new growth supported by groundwater there was accompanied by the release of a computer model report finding that the entire area faces a shortfall in groundwater supplies compared to demand over the next century.
Other proposals would tighten the reins on development based on groundwater use, out of concern the state's new limits may not prove adequate.
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While the proposals are in part a reaction to the Phoenix-area development issue, several sources said they could also affect the Tucson area and other urban areas that are covered by a 43-year-old state requirement for new subdivisions to show an assured 100-year water supply.
One proposal would allow development to occur on the use of groundwater if the developer can demonstrate that the project will have access to a renewable, non-groundwater supply in a fixed time. Another would change how the Arizona Department of Water Resources does its computer modeling in ways that could potentially show a less problematic outcome for new growth, by indicating that future demand will be less than currently projected.
A third proposal would make it easier for developers and perhaps water providers to "commingle" renewable supplies such as Central Arizona Project water with groundwater before serving the water with customers.
But a proposal that would make it harder to prove an assured supply would reduce the maximum depth to which development could cause water tables to decline. Another would require all new industries and other businesses to prove that they have assured water supplies — a requirement now limited to subdivisions.
Another would require proof of assured water supplies for development anywhere in the state. This requirement now covers only five, mostly urban, state-run water "active management areas." Still another proposal would require new subdivisions that use pumped groundwater to recharge renewable supplies into the same aquifer from which they pump.
The proposals come slightly more than a month after the Arizona Department of Water Resources released its report that the greater Phoenix area will have a nearly 5 million acre-foot-a-year deficit in groundwater supplies compared to demand over the next 100 years.
Because of that finding, ADWR stopped issuing certificates of assured water supplies for new developments that rely solely on groundwater. The decision will limit future homebuilding on the periphery of the Phoenix area although not in Phoenix itself. ADWR has already issued similar curbs on homebuilding in much of Pinal County following a similar finding of inadequate groundwater supplies.
The proposals come from state agency officials, lobbying groups, legislators and individuals and groups representing developers, city water utilities and private water companies.
All of them sit on an Assured Supply Committee, whose members were chosen by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Its purpose is to determine if changes are needed in the state law and rules governing assured supplies. The committee is supposed to make recommendations to a larger Water Policy Council, also created by the governor, by year's end.
The members have a wide range of outlooks. At one end of the spectrum is state Rep. Gail Griffin, a Hereford Republican and a fervent advocate of private property rights who opposes regulations she sees as infringing on peoples' right to live or start a business where they choose. More than once, Griffin has blocked legislative measures that would have tightened up or instituted various groundwater protections that she said would violate property rights, particularly in rural areas where no rules regulate pumping at all.
At the other end is Kathleen Ferris, an attorney, water researcher and former ADWR director who has crusaded for more than four decades with some success to try to ensure that new growth doesn't drain the state's diminished aquifers.
Other members include state Tucson Democratic state Sen. Priya Sundareshan, officials of water user groups from the Tucson and Phoenix areas, officials of Tucson Water and the Phoenix Water Department, two Hobbs cabinet members, a private water company official, a Pinal County water agency, and representatives of two development interest groups. Top officials of the three-county Central Arizona Project and the Phoenix-based Salt River Project also sit on the committee.
While ADWR presented some of the proposals at meetings of the committee and a related subcommittee, none of the proposals has the endorsement of that agency or the governor's office, said Christian Slater, Hobbs' communications director.
The committee's formal objective is to "review and make recommendations" for updates to state assured water supply policies "to address challenges revealed by the modeling projections" for the Phoenix area.
"But as a matter of policy, ADWR likes all the (active management areas) to have the same policy," said Spencer Kamps, a committee member and a vice president and lobbyist for the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona. "So this question has not been discussed by the water council as far as I know, and is unsettled," he said, referring to whether the committee's work could apply to all active management areas including Tucson.
Sarah Porter, director of Arizona State University's Kyl Center for Water Policy, sees clear, possible implications in these proposals for other urban areas including Tucson.
"Everybody understands that Pinal County is under the same limit as Phoenix. It's also a place with a lot of pressure for more growth," said Porter, who isn't a committee member. "As (ADWR Director) Tom Buschatzke has said, we have been allocating groundwater for 40 years in these areas, and pretty soon, unmet demand for it will daylight in all of them."
'Who gets to decide?'
The potential for controversy over the assured water supply issue springs first from the very principles that the state water agency is espousing for how changes to the law and rules should be considered.
ADWR has said proposals:
— Must protect the strength and integrity of the Assured Water Supply program.
— Should enable future growth without reliance on mined groundwater.
— May not reduce the 100-year requirement or increase the depth to which groundwater may be pumped.
— Must ensure there is water before growth.
— Must protect consumers.
In a July 7 letter to Buschatzke, however, legislator Griffin strongly objected to the ADWR's having made these principles preconditions for any proposal to be formally considered.
The principles "create a clear, anchoring bias that favors one viewpoint over others and precludes the committee from considering other, potentially new and innovative ideas if they do not go along with preconceived notions," said Griffin, who chairs the House Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee.
"As a state lawmaker and elected representative for over 15 years, I understand that successful adoption of complex policies is rarely accomplished through the unilateral demarcation of terms, but rather through the collaborative process where shared values and principles can be developed organically from the people," Griffin wrote.
"Where did these 'principles' come from? Who developed them? And why weren't they brought to our attention before their adoption?" Griffin wrote. "Who gets to decide which proposals are 'consistent' with the purported principles? Is it the Director of ADWR; and if so, then why is it not the collective members of the (Assured Water Supply) Committee?"
One principle she felt should have been on ADWR's list is that groundwater savings and other benefits to the assured water program should be achieved through voluntary efforts rather than government mandates. Voluntary conservation by commercial and industrial development will be key to reducing the amount of unmet groundwater demand, she wrote.
"Most importantly, I believe in the protection of private property rights and individual liberty, and that the right to be self-reliant, live off the land, and build a home or start a business in the location of one’s choosing — free from government interference—should not be infringed. This has been a guiding principle for most of my years in public service, and I believe that the committee should not be allowed to consider any proposal that would interfere with these rights," she wrote.
For Ferris, however, ADWR's principles are bottom-line, core concepts — "guiding stars" — that must be adhered to in changing any law or rule. She has opposed for years any state law or rule changes that she felt would accelerate the "mining" of groundwater by pumping out more than is replenished by rainfall and through artificial recharge efforts.
Her concern — shared by many professional hydrologists — is that overpumping will trigger land subsidence, raise pumping costs and worsen the groundwater's quality.
Ferris declined last week to take a stand on the latest set of proposals, saying she needed to review them further. But she vowed to fight any proposal that will allow additional development that relies on the use of groundwater.
ADWR's principles are "just common sense," said Ferris, a researcher for ASU's Kyl Center and a former director and legal counsel for the Phoenix-based Arizona Municipal Water Users Association.
"ADWR’s models predict that groundwater in storage in the Phoenix Active Management Area will decline substantially over the next 100 years — and with CAP cuts and climate change, the decline will be even worse. We cannot keep relying on mined groundwater as a source of water for growth if our state is to maintain our economies, our beautiful environment and our envied way of life," she said.
Despite these and other clear differences of views among committee members, ASU's Porter said she sees potential avenues for compromise.
"I have talked to people who are interested in seeing some ways of allowing some development beyond what’s already permitted," by certificates of assured supplies for new developments, said Porter, who declined to identify them. "But they understand in order to get there, the assured water supply program needs to be strengthened."
The recent limit on new development in the Phoenix area, along with the creation last year of a new Active Management Area in the Douglas area and state restrictions on new farming in northwest Arizona, are all "winds of change" that may lead people now "to find solutions that involve give and take, and I really mean that," said Porter.
Potentially controversial examples
Some of the most sweeping and potentially controversial proposals before the committee are:
1. COMMINGLING. One that would make it easier for developers and possibly water utilities to "commingle" renewable supplies such as CAP water with non-renewable groundwater to be served to homes and businesses. The current state rule requires a water provider or developer to show that the groundwater supply is adequate even though they intend to bring in a renewable supply. This is to protect homeowners from facing the risks of groundwater shortages, the agency says.
The proposal would require a developer who brings in an alternative water supply to secure a separate, equivalent amount of renewable water to give to the water provider. This step is supposed to create an incentive to bring in renewable supplies.
In a separate proposal, committee member Doug Dunham, an executive with private water company Epcor, called for allowing a water provider to bring in the renewable supply along with the developer, and spelled out that use of treated sewage effluent would be allowed.
2. INFRASTRUCTURE. Typically, state rules don't allow developers to use groundwater for their projects on the basis that they will bring in renewable supplies in the future. ADWR is floating a proposal to allow that if a developer provides milestones for completion of pipes and other infrastructure for such a project, and agrees that the project's assured supply certificate would expire if the milestones aren't met.
The developer would also have to post a performance bond to ensure that money for the infrastructure would be available and show that he has permits for construction of the project.
Dunham proposed to allow an "interim water supply" — which he doesn't identify — to be used "if appropriate supplies and infrastructure are available within 20 years."
3. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. Stores, malls and industrial plants aren't covered by assured water supply rules unless they're part of a legal subdivision. But several committee members want to look at possibly placing them under the rules because otherwise, their pumping can contribute to groundwater overdraft.
Ferris and Sundareshan want the committee to either recommend or consider recommending putting such projects into the Assured Water Supply program. That would require them to prove, as homebuilders now have to prove, that they have an assured, 100-year supply.
Epcor's Dunham would approach the issue differently. He would require that a business developer show that the project's water demand "will not negatively impact" existing water uses that have already met the assured supply rules. A new industrial user would have to make 50% of its groundwater demand consistent with the urban area's management goal for groundwater supplies.
4. WATER LEVEL DECLINES, REPLENISHMENT RULES. Today, developments can draw down aquifers by 1,000 feet and comply with the state rules in the Tucson and Phoenix areas and by 1,100 feet in most of Pinal County. Ferris proposes to reduce that to 800 feet deep, to reduce long-term risks of the aquifer suffering from subsidence, in which it compacts and ultimately collapses. Such a restriction would make it harder to prove a development has an assured supply, and would undoubtedly draw strong opposition.
Ferris and Sundareshan also want to require developers who build new subdivisions relying on pumped groundwater to replenish the aquifer in the same areas where the pumping occurs with renewable supplies. Today, there's no requirement as to where the recharge of CAP water from the Colorado River and other renewable supplies can occur other than it must happen within the same Active Management Area where the development's groundwater is pumped.
Critics of the current practice say it triggers local depletion of aquifers. Supporters of it say the overall groundwater basin remains sustainable because of the recharge.
5. DEVELOPMENT FEES. Dunham and Cheryl Lombard, president and CEO of a Phoenix-based development group, advocated for charging development fees on new projects to help pay for new water supplies and for other ways to reduce the amount of demand for groundwater that's not met by existing supplies.
The fees could pay for new water supplies and support agricultural conservation programs to improve farms' water use efficiency. It could also pay for water users to connect their systems to other systems whose water supplies are less problematic.
6. NON-REGULATORY TOOLS. Griffin's letter to ADWR essentially spoke out against the department's recent limits on Phoenix-area subdividing. All new businesses and people to the state should be welcome, she said, whether they choose to locate inside areas served by utilities with assured supply designations — which weren't affected by the ADWR limits — or outside them in areas where growth has now been curbed.
"I also believe that no proposal should be allowed to shut down our state's economy or preclude growth outside of designated providers if the growth can demonstrate minimal impact to the groundwater table," she wrote. The use of effluent and the replenishment of aquifers should be considered in future groundwater studies, Griffin said. Water providers with designations or certificates should be able to submit data showing their customers are using less water, she added.
For the most part, she advocated voluntary conservation measures and incentives rather than mandates. The state should encourage development that doesn't affect groundwater tables and set up a committee to establish "best management practices" for commercial and industrial businesses, she wrote. If water providers with state-approved certificates or designations of assured supply see reduced water demand, the ADWR should allow them to take credit for that in its groundwater models, she said.
She did endorse requirements for developers of "build to rent housing," which is now exempt from the assured supply rules, to replenish aquifers with renewable supplies and for commercial and industrial projects to reuse their wastewater at their sites, however.
7. FARMS TO HOMES. Since farms typically use far more water than homes and businesses, proposals to encourage the replacement of farms with subdivisions drew support from unlikely allies: Ferris, Epcor's Dunham and homebuilder lobbyist Kamps. Dunham suggested creating a 'hybrid" assured supply water designation for lands lying within irrigation districts. Ferris advocated a "more sophisticated mechanism," unspecified, to channel urban growth toward farmlands. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-laws-water-rules-politics-government-development-homebuilding/article_fee3f634-2113-11ee-8ddf-cf7c7c4a0ff8.html | 2023-07-15T21:21:10 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-laws-water-rules-politics-government-development-homebuilding/article_fee3f634-2113-11ee-8ddf-cf7c7c4a0ff8.html |
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EAST CHICAGO — An 86-year-old man died from a gunshot wound to his head Saturday , East Chicago police said.
Ernest West Sr. was discovered dead just after midnight inside a house in the 2100 block of Joy Lane. His 50-year-old son was found outside the house with a gunshot wound to his right thigh and was taken to a nearby hospital to receive treatment.
West's son is being held at the East Chicago Police Department Jail as a person of interest.
East Chicago police's Criminal Investigation Division is investigating the homicide. Police said an update will be released once the Lake County prosecutor's office reviews the case.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Frank Lopez
Age : 55
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306256
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rashawn McClary
Age : 20
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306250
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaden Melton
Age : 20
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306229
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Nava
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306226
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kelly Lee
Age : 40
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306217
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oscar Lerma
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago Ridge, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306220
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derris Leblanc
Age : 24
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306237
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Hurtado
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306253
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharee Johnston
Age : 38
Residence: Hobart
Booking Number(s): 2306242
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Terrence Jones
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306227
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaiden Guyton
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306234
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Heather Hillis
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306258
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andraleen Draper
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306257
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Ellison
Age : 23
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306251
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - MACHINE GUN - W/NO PERMIT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Francisco Dehoyos Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306236
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - RESULTING IN SERIOUSLY BODILY INJURY-ENDANGERED ADULT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Childers
Age : 32
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306249
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Deja Burrell
Age : 22
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306260
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melvin Carr Sr.
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306228
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eugene Brame
Age : 39
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306243
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Becerra Jr.
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306219
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jose Romero-Avalos
Age : 41
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306037
Arrest Date: June 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Macedo
Age : 44
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306019
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David McWilliams
Age : 35
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306031
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Sonia Beeler
Age : 51
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306029
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alvaro Lopez-Serratos
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306026
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eva Thomas
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306146
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Wilbourn
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306114
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - ON A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derek Zanfei
Age : 33
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306113
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAILURE TO RETURN TO LAWFUL DETENTION; RESISTING - ESCAPE; HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tracy Sizemore
Age : 57
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306127
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javonte Roberson
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306118
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Yuron Robinson
Age : 46
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306119
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ashlee Price
Age : 29
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306108
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Aarion Mosley
Age : 28
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306120
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Nagel
Age : 65
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306138
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Lapotka
Age : 56
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306107
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Brian Mejia
Age : 20
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306125
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Baldemar Montemayor
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306133
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - OBSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karla Jenkins
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306147
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Kane
Age : 29
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306122
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Dionte Dortch
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306117
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lee Derkacy
Age : 46
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306116
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Barron Arnold
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306110
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Bentley
Age : 31
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306115
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mercedes Cruz
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306124
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ashley Sumpter
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306162
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tonya Wallace
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306179
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Santana
Age : 44
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306175
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Moore Sr.
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306165
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - USE - FIREARM - POINTING A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terrence Petty
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306174
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ricardo Pina Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306153
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Victoria Reed
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306170
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shauntavia Meeks
Age : 32
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306169
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deja Ta Johnson
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306180
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Lujano
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306184
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Chamier Bowman
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306181
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cameron Dotson
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306167
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anguel Anaya
Age : 24
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306154
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demetrius Thomas
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306206
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sean Rogers
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306188
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luis Rodriguez
Age : 35
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306213
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alejandro Rios Sr.
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306198
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS W/DEADLY WEAPON (PERSON IS VICTIM)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gilberto Noriega Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306214
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shianah Rainey
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306203
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Hunter
Age : 45
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306194
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Darrell Jackson
Age : 32
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306189
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Crisantema Navarro
Age : 43
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306210
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kane Hughes
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306205
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT - DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Dillman
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306201
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Blaize III
Age : 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306190
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Cilek
Age : 47
Residence: Lake Worth, FL
Booking Number(s): 2306204
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Birchall
Age : 20
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306212
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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Christmas in July: Flagler Beach Police offering toy waiver for some traffic infractions
The event benefits a nonprofit that provides toys and other help to families during the holidays.
Flagler Beach Police brings Christmas cheer this July by giving some drivers a “toy waiver” instead of a traffic ticket to help provide gifts for children during the holidays.
Police officers at their discretion can give drivers warnings and a toy waiver for non-criminal traffic infractions through July 30 for its Christmas in July 2023 program, according to Police Chief Matt Doughney.
“This program is about making the winter holidays truly special for the children of our community. Our incredible community partners at Christmas Come True work diligently all year and we’re glad to help them make the holidays special,” Doughney stated in a press release.
Purchasing a toy could save drivers some money since traffic tickets cost $116 or $166, Doughney said.
The “toy waiver” provides motorists with information on how to donate a new, unwrapped toy to the police department, which will forward the donations to Christmas Come True, a local nonprofit.
The organization’s mission’s is “to provide a complete Christmas experience for area resident parents who are unable to financially afford a traditional Christmas for their families.”
“The beauty is you are going to put a smile on the face of a child,” Doughney said.
Turning tickets into toys:Toys for Tickets spells joy for Flagler children
Doughney said the benefit drive, which started July 9, is completely voluntary and if a motorists gets a toy waiver, they still don't have to donate a toy; officers will not be checking who did and who didn't.
"We don’t have a naughty and nice list," Doughney said.
He added: “If you can’t afford a gift, this is a 100% voluntary."
This winter will be the eighth year Flagler Beach Police Department has been running a toys for tickets program. This is the third year for the summer version of the toy drive.
Doughney said some people just stop by the station even if they haven’t received a warning and toy waiver.
“We will have people that come by that don’t even get warnings,” he said. “They drop off toys. They drop off wrapping paper, Scotch tape."
Motorists who voluntarily choose to participate in the program can drop off a new, unwrapped toy from 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Flagler Beach Police Department, 204 S. Flagler Ave. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2023/07/15/flagler-beach-police-offering-toy-waiver-for-some-traffic-infractions/70416781007/ | 2023-07-15T21:42:50 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2023/07/15/flagler-beach-police-offering-toy-waiver-for-some-traffic-infractions/70416781007/ |
DeLand man bitten by shark while surfing off New Smyrna Beach; 2nd shark bite of year
New Smyrna Beach is known as the Shark Bite Capital of the World
A DeLand man was bitten by a shark on Friday while surfing in New Smyrna Beach, marking the second shark bite of the year, according to Volusia County Beach Safety.
That it happened in New Smyrna Beach is not unusual; NSB is known as the shark bite capital of the world.
The man, in his 20s, suffered a non-life-threatening but serious injury to his foot, according to Volusia County Beach Safety Capt. A.J. Miller.
The man, whose name was not released, was surfing near the south jetty when he was bitten shortly before 3:30 p.m. Volusia County Emergency Medical Services transported him to a nearby hospital.
Fighting back:Teen surfer punches shark after being bitten in Ponce Inlet
America's deadliest beaches
New Smyrna Beach topped a list of America's 10 "deadliest" beaches according to online travel publication, Travel Lens. The publication looked at shark bites and other factors, such as hurricane frequency, to create the list. Ormond Beach was number three.
New Smyrna Beach is consistently the world leader in shark bites, most of which are minor. The bites result when sharks feeding near Ponce Inlet mistake surfers or swimmers for baitfish.
Volusia County's last fatal shark attack was in August 1981 when a catamaran capsized in rough seas 3 miles off Ormond Beach. Two couples clung to the boat overnight and tried to swim to shore in the morning. Christi Wapniarski, 19, screamed she had been bitten and said, "Swim to me. I think I'm going to die!"
She was injured and had no pulse when her boyfriend and another person reached her, according to media reports.
Rip currents pose larger threat
While sharks are scary to some and evoke images of sleek ocean-going predators with jaws teeming with sharp teeth, the bigger threat is rip currents.
As of June, Volusia County had reported at least three apparent rip-current-related deaths.
Volusia County Beach Safety rescues people from rip currents on a regular basis. In June, Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue Deputy Chief Tammy Malphurs estimated that lifeguards had rescued more than 550 people from the ocean in a two-week time span.
Beach safety stresses that people should swim in front of lifeguard towers. Besides rescuing people caught in rips, lifeguards can call people out of the ocean if they see large groups of baitfish or birds diving into the water because that usually signals that sharks are near.
Beach safety recommends people get the Volusia Beaches app to find out where the staffed lifeguard towers are. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2023/07/15/shark-bite-in-new-smyrna-beach-deland-surfer-suffered-serious-injury/70416914007/ | 2023-07-15T21:42:56 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2023/07/15/shark-bite-in-new-smyrna-beach-deland-surfer-suffered-serious-injury/70416914007/ |
A Silver Alert has been declared for a missing central Indiana man believed to be in danger and who may require medical assistance, Indiana State Police said today.
Toby Matthew Sanders, 24, of Middletown, was last seen Thursday in Middletown, northeast of Indianapolis, state police said in the alert.
It said Sanders is 6 feet tall, 175 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a red T-shirt and black shorts. He was driving a red 2013 Chevrolet Cruise with Indiana license plate YJJ564.
Anyone with information about Sanders is asked to contact the Middletown Police Department at 765-354-2281 or dial 911. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/silver-alert-declared-for-missing-central-indiana-man/article_1892c340-2339-11ee-af54-9fda9129df15.html | 2023-07-15T21:46:45 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/silver-alert-declared-for-missing-central-indiana-man/article_1892c340-2339-11ee-af54-9fda9129df15.html |
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management said today it is extending its statewide Air Quality Action Day through Monday because it forecasts high levels of fine particles in the air from Canadian wildfires.
Smoke and particulate matter will be moving into the state on Sunday, raising particulate levels to unhealthy for sensitive groups, the department said in a statement.
Those people at risk are particularly vulnerable after several days of high exposure, the statement said. It said sensitive groups should reduce or avoid exertion and heavy work outdoors during these conditions. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/statewide-air-quality-action-day-extended-through-monday/article_3f79fa4c-2333-11ee-b8b8-d768aa7bf392.html | 2023-07-15T21:46:51 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/statewide-air-quality-action-day-extended-through-monday/article_3f79fa4c-2333-11ee-b8b8-d768aa7bf392.html |
Brad Carter was indicted on Wednesday for eight counts of dissemination of child pornography (Class X felony) and 13 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony).
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According to police, 49-year-old Wesley Noonan of Bloomington was indicted on 59 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony) on Wednesday related to an investigation by BPD's Cyber Crimes Unit.
BLOOMINGTON — Two men, one from Bloomington and one from Normal, have been indicted on multiple child pornography charges as a result of investigations by the Bloomington Police Department.
Police said 49-year-old Wesley Noonan of Bloomington was indicted Wednesday on 59 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony) related to an investigation by BPD's Cyber Crimes Unit.
BPD Sgt. Ty Carlton said a nationwide warrant for Noonan's arrest has been issued for the amount of $1 million with full extradition.
According to McLean County court records, Noonan last appeared in court in September on drug charges. Carlton said Noonan has most likely been on the run since then.
Carlton added that the nature of Noonan's alleged crimes are severe enough to warrant aid from the U.S. Marshals.
"This would definitely be something that would classify for that," he said.
The case against Noonan began when BPD investigators with the Illinois State Police Drug Task Force 6 and the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted a narcotics-related search warrant. As part of the investigation, police confiscated Noonan's cellphone, which was found to contain child pornography, police said.
Carlton said Noonan's charges involve possession and distribution of child pornography.
Police also investigated 24-year-old Brad Carter of Normal after an instant messaging service made a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding the uploading and sharing of videos believed to be child sex abuse material, police said.
The BPD Criminal Investigations Division executed a search warrant at Carter's residence and discovered several images of child sex abuse material during the course of the investigation.
Carter was indicted on Wednesday for eight counts of dissemination of child pornography (Class X felony) and 13 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony).
Carter was held on $1 million bond with 10% to apply for release. He posted $100,035 Friday and was released from custody.
Bloomington Police Chief Jamal Simington thanked all law enforcement agency involved in the two cases.
"Sex crime allegations are the worst crime type for any child to experience and causes devastation for a lifetime," Simington said in the news release. "I applaud the investigative efforts of BPD's well-trained and diligent detectives."
BPD is continuing to investigate these incidents. Anyone with information should contact Det. Paul Swanlund at 309-434-2373 or pswanlund@cityblm.org, or call BPD at 309-820-8888.
To remain anonymous, BPD’s Crime & intelligence Analysis Unit can be reached at 309-434-2963 or CIAU@cityblm.org. Information can also be texted to 847411 by texting the word “BPDTIPS,” and inserting a space before your tip information.
Calls to CIAU should be made from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. A voicemail or email should be left outside of those hours.
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Tony L. Jackson
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Brandon L. Parsano
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Jordan R. King
Dominique M. Banks
Austin T. Daugherty
Sandra M. Lewis
Samantha E. Morris
Nolan C. Love
Nikkita L. Sandefur
Katlin M.B. Wilson
Eli C. Garozzo
Tysean T. Townsend
Curtis J. Byrd
Noral K. Nelson
Charles J. Tankson
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Kevin L. Ewen
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Dylan R Mann
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Brad Carter was indicted on Wednesday for eight counts of dissemination of child pornography (Class X felony) and 13 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony).
According to police, 49-year-old Wesley Noonan of Bloomington was indicted on 59 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony) on Wednesday related to an investigation by BPD's Cyber Crimes Unit. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/bloomington-normal-men-face-multiple-child-porn-charges/article_2720d1ba-2279-11ee-80be-af7d11288b11.html | 2023-07-15T21:47:53 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/bloomington-normal-men-face-multiple-child-porn-charges/article_2720d1ba-2279-11ee-80be-af7d11288b11.html |
NORMAL — Hundreds of families spread out on Grove Elementary School's lawn on Saturday for the 10th annual Kite Fest fundraiser benefiting For A Better Tomorrow.
Kite Fest, as its name suggests, invited families to the wide open field, skies peppered here and there with clouds, to set kites upon the gentle breeze.
"Fly a kite, lift a life," is the event's slogan, after all.
But it was more than just kite-flying, said Hariharan Senthilnathan, media relations at For a Better Tomorrow.
"Even though the name is Kite Fest, it is not just kites. We have so many other activities for kids," he said.
Senthilnathan said they had a talent show with a couple dozen participants, a DJ, sack races, lemon-and-spoon races and a 1K run. All of this, he said, was to raise funds for their philanthropic work.
This year, fund will go to four organizations, local and around the globe: Konnect Youth Consortium, Safe Passage, Back to School Alliance and Illinois Art Station.
Mandava Rao, chair for Kite Fest, said, "We started this organization to serve the needy where it is required."
Rao migrated to the United States from India in 2001. He has been in Bloomington-Normal ever since, even working as a human relations commissioner for the Town of Normal and currently sitting as a trustee on the Connect Transit Board of Directors.
Rao said there were already several nonprofit organizations in McLean County when they started For A Better Tomorrow in 2014, "but we wanted to take it uniquely for less fortunate people in the world, those who cannot work, the physically handicapped, those who don't have parents, kids who don't have parents, that's where we wanted to specialize. And feed the hungry."
Senthilnathan said For a Better Tomorrow has three legs: Kite Fest, the marketing and fundraising leg; Youth Global Citizen, a program for youngsters to learn about nonprofit life; and Why I See You (YICU), in which they honor and celebrate young people in the community.
YGC is a a three-week program that will have middle- and high-schoolers complete the course by partnering with McLean County nonprofits.
"They will go work for those nonprofit organizations by raising funds for them," Senthilnathan said. "So they learn about different fundraising behaviors, different methods."
Rao said YICU is "where we recognize the talent (of those) who serve the community; we recognize the young people."
Together, the three parts serve a single purpose, Rao said: "We are developing the youth, to move their mindset, to direct them to a giving nature for the community."
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Senthilnathan said they were averaging about 2,000 to 3,000 participants in Kite Fest.
Since the global hiccup, they have been moving slowly back up in numbers, Rao said. They expected about 2,500 participants on Saturday to raise upward of $19,000.
Just after noon, Senthilnathan said they were closing in on that goal.
Rao said the kites have particular meaning: "It is symbolic for freedom."
Senthilnathan said, "Kites are where you feel free. You are free to do whatever you want and have fun."
Rao said, in India, "kite flying is one of the passions at some of the festive events in the months of January and February." But they chose summer for Kite Fest because "here, January and February is freezing," Rao added, laughing.
He said the kites also serve to get the youth outdoors during the summer, like he did when he was young, instead of being stuck inside with technology.
"We had to make the kites on our own with the sticks and the newspapers," Rao recalled of his childhood. These days, though, mass-produced plastic kites are more common.
Still, Kite Fest appears to have a long-lasting effect on youth, as they keep coming back.
Senthilnathan said about 20 youth came out on Friday evening to help set up, "and they are still manning the booths."
He said these are some of the same children who came to Kite Fest when it first started.
"During the first Kite Fest, they were all babies. And now they are grown up," Senthilnathan said.
That aspect of returning volunteers and repeat givers is For A Better Tomorrow's mission, Senthilnathan said, to "help the community."
That started with Rao when he helped start Kite Fest a decade ago.
"My passion is community service," Rao said, his smile wide and beaming, "more than my professional career." | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/kitefest-fundraiser-fbt-community/article_ea369f8c-2340-11ee-836c-a711f6b2536b.html | 2023-07-15T21:47:59 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/kitefest-fundraiser-fbt-community/article_ea369f8c-2340-11ee-836c-a711f6b2536b.html |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Delta flight from Orlando with over 200 passengers onboard had to divert to Jacksonville Saturday afternoon after a mechanical issue, according to NEWS 6 partner WJXT-TV.
Flight 2978 landed safely at the Jacksonville International Airport around 3 p.m. after an oil quantity issue was found in one of the aircraft’s two engines, according to a Delta spokesperson. The Boeing 757-200 aircraft was carrying 193 customers and six crew members.
According to a Delta, aircraft was headed to Atlanta when the oil quantity issue was found.
Crews were able to secure a new plane to continue the flight to Atlanta that is scheduled to leave JAX around 6:50 p.m., once the aircraft arrives in Jacksonville.
No passengers were injured.
The Delta spokesperson sent the following statement:
“The crew of Delta flight 2978 from Orlando to Atlanta followed procedures to divert to Jacksonville when an oil quantity issue in one of the aircraft’s two engines was observed. We apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels, but nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people.”
Delta | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/07/15/delta-flight-from-orlando-diverts-to-jax-after-experiencing-mechanical-issues/ | 2023-07-15T22:01:53 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/07/15/delta-flight-from-orlando-diverts-to-jax-after-experiencing-mechanical-issues/ |
Hawthorn Hollow, 880 Green Bay Road, opened an additional 2.5 miles of hiking trails Saturday morning, winding paths that take nature enthusiasts through 50 acres of woodland and restored wetland.
About 40 visitors gathered at the trails’ entrance for the ribbon cutting ceremony, with many more coming throughout the afternoon to enjoy the newly opened trails with free tours guided by staff and volunteers.
TJ Leveque, executive director at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum, said it was the first new trail opening at the sanctuary since the sanctuary was founded in the 1970s.
“We’ve been anticipating this for a long time,” Leveque said. “This feels good finally having this open.”
In his roughly 15 years of volunteering and then working at Hawthorn Hollow, Leveque said he’s seen many positive changes at what he describes as a valuable “community asset.”
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“We’re in this momentum phase right now,” Leveque said. “We think it’s wonderful. We’re excited to see this property open.”
Hawthorn Hollow ecologist Emily Leonard was among those giving tours of the trails to groups of visitors, including her parents Troy and Lori Leonard. The couple was cheerfully following their daughter, praising the nature sanctuary and the new expansion.
“It’s just what you need in this area, to preserve nature as industry moves in,” Troy said.
Lori was excited to have a local nature sanctuary like Hawthorn, noting how few people know about the spot. Even locals, Lori said, were always surprised to learn about Hawthorn Hollow.
“It’s a well-kept secret,” Lori said. “It’s a hidden gem.”
Caitlin Zelms, the Hawthorn Hollow heritage farmstead manager, was hiking with her fiancé and young daughter. With the trails essentially in her backyard, she got to see the large-scale project come together over the years.
She admitted she was a little sad the trails would no longer be as private, but emphasized the importance of public nature sanctuaries.
“It’ll be cool to have people out here appreciating it,” Zelms said. “There should be no secrets with nature.”
Work on the new area began in 2017, about a year after Hawthorn Hollow announced its purchase of 50 additional acres, doubling the size of the nature sanctuary. The last trail was completed this spring.
The new trails have several notable features, including recently restored wetland, a boardwalk over an ongoing restoration area and the Chorus Pond, where a local wildlife symphony of frogs, insects and birds can be enjoyed.
Lori Artiomow, Hawthorn Hollow’s former ecologist and a notable force behind the project, said the new area was a significant boon to local wildlife diversity.
“The whole thing is just a great healing of the land,” Artimow said. “It’s a wonderful project; it’s an easy buy-in for people who want to see ecological diversity.”
She especially appreciated the meditative atmosphere of the trails, allowing visitors to observe nature up close.
For more information about Hawthorn Hollows, upcoming events and the trails, visit hawthornhollow.org. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/hidden-gem-hawthorn-hollow-opens-2-5-miles-of-new-trails-in-kenosha/article_a8bf9ad2-233a-11ee-a471-832e8d2b8e1a.html | 2023-07-15T22:02:17 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/hidden-gem-hawthorn-hollow-opens-2-5-miles-of-new-trails-in-kenosha/article_a8bf9ad2-233a-11ee-a471-832e8d2b8e1a.html |
It’s nearing the middle of the summer, and North Texas animal shelters — already burdened by a spike in strays — are dealing with an influx of dogs and cats who don’t have a home.
Fourth of July celebrations often put a strain on shelters since animals often get spooked by fireworks and escape from their owners’ yards, explained Amanda Atwell, spokeswoman for Dallas Animal Services.
“When dogs hear these loud noises and these wild bangs like the world’s ending, they’ll find any way they can to get out of their backyard,” Atwell said.
Prior to July 4, the shelter put out messaging about how to keep pets safe and advised people to keep animals indoors in a secure location during Independence Day festivities.
“We do think it had a level of impact because we did see a lower intake this year than we have in previous years,” Atwell said.
Still, intake numbers at the shelter range from 40 to 80 dogs daily, and the Dallas shelter was at about 120% capacity as of Tuesday morning.
Grapevine Animal Services also saw an influx of pets at its shelter after the Fourth of July, even after encouraging residents to keep their dogs safe indoors during festivities, said manager Kristina Valentine.
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The Grapevine shelter has also seen a rise in the number of animals from other municipalities in the area, which makes it even harder for pets to find their owner, Valentine added. Other times, pet owners turn their own animals in as “found,” which increases the amount of time animals wait in line as strays — instead of as up for adoption. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/d-fw-animal-shelters-are-over-capacity-heres-how-you-can-help/3296676/ | 2023-07-15T22:03:10 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/d-fw-animal-shelters-are-over-capacity-heres-how-you-can-help/3296676/ |
Mexico’s top diplomat said Friday her country has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government expressing concern that Texas’ deployment of floating barriers on the Rio Grande may violate 1944 and 1970 treaties on boundaries and water.
Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said Mexico will send an inspection team to the Rio Grande to see whether any of the barrier extends into Mexico’s side of the border river.
She also complained about U.S. efforts to put up barbed wire on a low-lying island in the river near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Bárcena said that if the buoys impede the flow of water, it would violate the treaties, which requires the river remain unobstructed. Mexico has already asked that the barriers be removed.
Texas began rolling out the new floating barrier on the Rio Grande in early July. It is part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar effort to secure the U.S. border with Mexico, which already has included busing migrants to liberal states and authorizing the National Guard to make arrests.
Migrant advocates have voiced concerns about drowning risks from the buoys and environmentalists questioned the impact on the river.
Once installed, the above-river parts of the system and the webbing they’re connected with will cover 1,000 feet (305 meter) of the middle of the Rio Grande, with anchors in the riverbed. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/mexico-files-border-boundaries-complaint-over-texas-floating-barrier-plan-on-rio-grande/3296680/ | 2023-07-15T22:03:16 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/mexico-files-border-boundaries-complaint-over-texas-floating-barrier-plan-on-rio-grande/3296680/ |
A report assessing the health of Kenosha County and outlining priority areas for improvementis now setting the stage for a community-led health planning process, local public health leaders announced Friday.
The 2022 Kenosha County Community Health Assessment has been published, incorporating data collected in a 124-question survey that was presented to residents last year, as well as information gathered at Community Conversations events and through other exterior data sources.
Nearly 1,000 people responded to the survey, which was conducted online and on paper in the fall of 2022. That is more than twice the number of respondents in past surveys that were conducted by telephone, and the respondent makeup reflects the age, race and ethnicity demographics of Kenosha County said Interim Health Director Lori Plahmer.
“This plan, which we’re required to develop under state law, provides a roadmap for the community for setting public health priorities,” Plahmer said. “We’re pleased with the increased level of community participation and with the continued engagement by our community health partners.”
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The top five health concerns identified by the community were:
1) Access to affordable health care
2) Affordable housing
3) Drug and alcohol use
4) Access to affordable healthy food
5) Violence and crime
Community stakeholders gathered in May and voted to create action groups addressing top three concerns listed above, combining mental health with drug and alcohol use. These groups had their initial meetings late last month and will convene again on July 27 and Aug. 24.
Those interested in participating may sign up at https://bit.ly/ThriveActionGroups.
The full Community Health Assessment Report along with various data stories are available on the Kenosha County Thrive webpage, at https://www.kenoshacounty.org/thrive. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/action-teams-working-to-address-kenosha-county-community-health-priorities/article_be055be2-2327-11ee-b91f-9bcc54301674.html | 2023-07-15T22:15:22 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/action-teams-working-to-address-kenosha-county-community-health-priorities/article_be055be2-2327-11ee-b91f-9bcc54301674.html |
Kenosha County Treasurer Teri Jacobson reminds Kenosha County taxpayers that the final installment for their property tax is due by July 31.
“Where you pay depends on where you live, or whether you are on time with your taxes”, Jacobson said.
If your property is in the City of Kenosha and you are paying 2022 property taxes, you must pay City of Kenosha Treasurer Michelle Nelson at the Municipal Building, 625 52nd St.
If your property is in Pleasant Prairie and you are paying 2022 property taxes, you must pay Village of Pleasant Prairie Treasurer Kathy Goessl at the Village Hall, 9915 39th Ave.
If your property is located anywhere else in Kenosha County, or you have prior-year delinquent taxes, you must pay the County Treasurer’s Office, which offers several options for payment:
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Checks or money orders may be mailed to the Kenosha County Treasurer, 1010 56th St., Kenosha, WI 53140. If you would like a return receipt mailed to you, enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope with your payment. Make sure that your mail receives a U.S. postmark on or before July 31.
Pay in person by check, cash or money order at the County Treasurer’s Office, 1010 56th St., Kenosha, or at the Elected Officials Office located in the Kenosha County Center at highways 45 and 50 in Bristol. Both offices are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, though the Elected Officials Office is closed during the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m. each day.
Pay by credit card using Point & Pay either at the counter or online at https://client.pointandpay.net/web/KenoshaCountyTreasurerWI. Taxpayers should be aware that an additional charge will be added by Point & Pay for those who use a credit card. The fee is less for those who pay by e-check through Point & Pay.
Jacobson said it is important that property owners meet the July 31 deadline.
For those who miss the deadline, the balance on their account will be considered delinquent and subject to interest and penalty of 1.5% per month retroactive to Feb. 1 (10.5 %).
Those with any questions about paying property taxes may contact the Kenosha County Treasurer’s Office at 653-2542, or emailJacobson at Teri.Jacobson@kenoshacounty.org. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/final-kenosha-county-property-tax-installment-due-july-31/article_cb35f6a2-2325-11ee-94ce-6bd86e047621.html | 2023-07-15T22:15:28 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/final-kenosha-county-property-tax-installment-due-july-31/article_cb35f6a2-2325-11ee-94ce-6bd86e047621.html |
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa. — One person was taken to the hospital after a stabbing at Knoebels Campground in Columbia County.
Officials say a fight broke out at the campground near Elysburg in Northumberland County just before 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
One person was injured. They are expected to be okay.
Police say one person is in custody after the stabbing and that there is no danger to the public.
This is a developing story, please check back for more details.
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HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — First responders battled a fire at a thrift store on Saturday morning in Luzerne County.
Officials say they were called to the Salvation Army Thrift Store along the Sans Souci Parkway in Hanover Township, near Wilkes-Barre, around 10:30 a.m.
Fire crews believe a transformer for the building malfunctioned and caused the fire.
First responders had to climb onto the roof to put out the fire.
Officials say it took about two hours before all the flames were out.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/thrift-store-catches-fire-in-luzerne-county-salvation-army-thrift-store-hanover-township-wilkes-barre/523-41420ea7-4d79-42bf-8588-814f0ca17e7f | 2023-07-15T22:19:19 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/thrift-store-catches-fire-in-luzerne-county-salvation-army-thrift-store-hanover-township-wilkes-barre/523-41420ea7-4d79-42bf-8588-814f0ca17e7f |
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in Uniontown.
Fayette County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to 32 Wilson Avenue at around 3:16 p.m. on Saturday.
Uniontown City Police say a 14-year-old girl is being questioned.
A third person was in the house but fled the scene. Police are unsure if that person was involved.
Pennsylvania State Police are assisting in the investigation.
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CARRICK, Pa. — Emergency crews are battling an apartment building fire in Carrick.
Allegheny County dispatchers say police officers, firefighters and medics were called to the 2600 block of Brownsville Road at around 3:47 p.m.
Investigators say one person has been taken to a hospital.
The fire was raised to two alarms at around 4:08 p.m.
Neighbors tell Channel 11 they believe the building is abandoned.
Firefighters appear to be focusing on the back of the building.
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BOISE, Idaho — A family of five was forced out of their home Friday night after hot ash from cigarettes sparked a fire, according to the Boise Fire Department.
Officials said crews arrived on North Heath Avenue to find the fire moving up the backside of the two-story house around 6 p.m. Friday. Two Boise Fire engines and a truck worked to stop the flames from the outside of the home, while crews used the vertical ventilation method to knock the fire down.
Vertical ventilation is used to allow a fire to take its natural path. In the photos below, a cut can be seen on the home's roof.
The Boise Fire Department said five residents and a dog were forced from the home as a result of Friday's fire. The family is receiving assistance from the Local 149 Burnout Fund, a program designed to provide short-term help when a home is destroyed by a fire.
No family members, pets or firefighters were injured in the incident. The fire was caused by cigarettes that were reportedly disposed of in a plastic container, Boise Fire said.
"Please be careful with hot ashes as they can be a fire hazard," Boise Fire wrote on Facebook. "It is important to always use a metal container when disposing of hot ashes. Do not use plastic as it can easily ignite."
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BAYVIEW, Idaho — “That sign is a nuisance, frankly,” Bayview resident Steve Leifer said. “It causes discomfort for lots of people who have to see it.”
The sign is a 20-by-20-foot vinyl flag hanging from cables between two pine trees on Jess Goetz’s property. It reads, "Do not cut neighbor's trees for your view. Shame on you!"
Goetz, 83, owns a lakefront home in Bayview with several rental homes on the property. Goetz claims a neighbor to his north cut down a handful of his fruit trees to give himself a better view.
The neighbor, Mike Flynn, has a different view of events. He said a tree fell onto his fence, which he cut up. He repaired his fence and moved on.
Flynn decided to list his current lot and shop on Cape Horn Road for sale, and he said that’s when Goetz put the sign up.
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Originally published July 10 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.
More than 87,000 Idahoans – so far – are being removed from Medicaid coverage after expanded coverage from the pandemic has lapsed.
A little more than half of Medicaid recipients who lost coverage — 48,857 — were removed because the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare either could not contact them or the Medicaid enrollees didn’t give the agency the information to prove their eligibility, department spokesperson Greg Stahl told the Idaho Capital Sun in an email. Another 38,682 people removed from Medicaid were determined ineligible, Stahl said, while 27,537 were deemed eligible.
The figures, released last week by the Department of Health and Welfare, show about 76% of Medicaid recipients who state officials reviewed will no longer have access to the program offering free health insurance.
States were largely barred from removing people from Medicaid during the pandemic. Idaho and other states began reviewing and removing ineligible Medicaid recipients this April after a new federal law removed the exemption.
State regulators have reviewed the eligibility of about 115,000 patients, leaving at least 39,000 more applicants to be reviewed before the entire Medicaid population’s eligibility is reviewed.
HOW YOU'LL KNOW IF YOU'RE BEING REMOVED FROM IDAHO MEDICAID
The Department of Health and Welfare is sending notices to people disenrolled from Medicaid. If the notices contain incorrect information about you or your household, contact the Department of Health and Welfare to redetermine your Medicaid eligibility.
About 450,000 Idahoans are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Plan.
Stahl said the agency is wrapping up sending pink colored notices in the mail requesting their eligibility information this month.
Medicaid recipients can check idalink.idaho.gov, a website for assistance programs, to access their current status and notices, Stahl said.
Idaho Medicaid members who receive a notice have 60 days to reply before being disenrolled. The Department of Health and Welfare began disenrolling members who did not respond to notices in June, Director Dave Jeppesen said in a blog post late last month.
HOW TO GET HEALTH INSURANCE
People disenrolled from Medicaid should receive information on how to enroll in insurance on the state’s health insurance exchange, called Your Health Idaho, where Idahoans can enroll and access tax credits based on their income levels.
Idaho Medicaid is open to adults who earn less than 138% of the federal poverty limit — which is $20,120 a year for a single person. Eligible people can re-enroll at any time. Low income children are also eligible for Medicaid, as are children with disabilities and behavioral health needs.
Over half of Idahoans who are on Medicaid are children, said Christine Tiddens, director of Idaho Voices for Children.
“There’s still a lot of confusion in families across the state on what’s happening with Medicaid and Medicaid enrollment,” Tiddens said. “We’re concerned that children specifically are slipping through the cracks and losing health coverage, even if they’re still eligible for the program.”
To enroll now, people must enroll in a policy at Your Health Idaho 60 days before losing coverage from Medicaid or 90 days after losing Medicaid, or prove that they had another reason to change their health insurance plan, like getting married, having a child, getting divorced or losing health insurance, which insurance companies commonly call qualifying life events.
Insurance on Your Health Idaho allows people earning moderate to low incomes to qualify for tax subsidies to reduce the amount they pay toward health insurance. Visit yourhealthidaho.org or call 855-944-3246 to learn more, or check out its pre-eligibility calculator, where you can enter your information to learn how much money you can save on insurance. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/in-idaho-half-of-people-removed-from-medicaid-didn-t-send-state-their-info/article_8d5e2e54-2284-11ee-940f-17c25e244a9f.html | 2023-07-15T22:27:41 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/in-idaho-half-of-people-removed-from-medicaid-didn-t-send-state-their-info/article_8d5e2e54-2284-11ee-940f-17c25e244a9f.html |
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SR 88 reopens, Crosscut Fire contained near Apache Junction
Aidan Wohl
Arizona Republic
Both directions of State Route 88 north of Apache Junction have been reopened after being closed for about two hours, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation's Twitter account.
The road closure was caused by a brush fire at milepost 201 near Lost Dutchman State Park, according to ADOT.
The Crosscut Fire was contained at two acres and is under investigation, according to the U.S Forest Service-Tonto National Forest's Facebook account.
This is a developing story. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-traffic/2023/07/15/state-route-88-near-apache-junction-closed-brush-fire/70417178007/ | 2023-07-15T22:39:09 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-traffic/2023/07/15/state-route-88-near-apache-junction-closed-brush-fire/70417178007/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department is investigating after a homicide in West Austin on Saturday morning.
The incident happened at the Westlake Apartments in the 3500 block of N. Capital of Texas Highway southbound around 6:40 a.m. A 911 caller reported hearing several gunshots heard within the complex.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found a man in his 40s "with obvious trauma to his body" lying next to a vehicle near the back of one of the apartment complex's buildings.
Austin-Travis County EMS attempted life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead on the scene just before 7 a.m.
Police are still searching for a suspect
Police said it was an isolated incident with no threat to the public.
Anyone with any information on the incident is asked to contact police at 512-477-3588 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 512-472-8477.
This is being investigated as Austin's 36th homicide of 2023.
No other information is available at this time. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/westlake-apartments-homicide/269-1329ed2a-394c-4c3a-829e-4700f5b9a917 | 2023-07-15T22:45:21 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/westlake-apartments-homicide/269-1329ed2a-394c-4c3a-829e-4700f5b9a917 |
SOUTHWEST HARBOR -- Mainers dressed in pink flocked to Southwest Harbor Saturday for the return of the Flamingo Festival and parade.
"It brings everyone together. It's one of those fun community events that people plan their vacations around," said Diana Novella, event & community relations director for the Harbor House.
Hundreds of parade-goers lined the streets dressed in pink to welcome a variety of floats highlighting the celebration.
Organizers say the event helps to support the community.
"It's a fundraiser for the Harbor House, which is a community center for Southwest Harbor and Tremont. So, all of the proceeds go to support the programs that Harbor House does," said Novella. "Like childcare and after-school care."
After the parade, festivities continued with vendors, food, and bounce-houses.
"It's great, I look forward to it every summer. I actually enjoy this more than the Fourth of July," said Southwest Harbor resident Jasmin Hebron.
Those who came out shared how they felt about the festival.
"It's unexpected and awesome, I can't wait to come again next year," said Casco resident Michael Davidson.
The festival dates back more than 20 years, when the town's Polo & Yacht Club used decorative flamingos as a mascot for their cocktail party fundraiser.
Because of the popularity of the mascot, the Harbor House decided to reach out to the creator of the pink flamingo lawn ornament -- Don Featherstone.
"The creator of the pink flamingo lawn ornament lived in Massachusetts. And, our executive director at the time found out that he lived in Massachusetts, and he invited him to be the grand marshal of the festival -- and the flamingo theme just stuck," said Novella.
While there are always flamingos, the theme of the festival changes every year. This year, the theme is "peace, love, and flamingos" -- and some dressed up to fit that theme.
"It's kind of a funny festival considering it's flamingos in the state of Maine, but it's a good time," said Southwest Harbor resident Rob Hebron.
The festival will continue with a number of family friendly activities, live music, and more.
"I love the theme this year -- 'peace, love, and flamingos.' We need a little more of all of that in our lives right now," said Colorado resident Penelope Place Gleason
For a full list of events and to learn more about the Harbor House, visit harborhousemdi.org/flamingo-festival. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/flamingo-festival-returns-to-southwest-harbor/article_a77e5206-2355-11ee-9205-1b843a66891e.html | 2023-07-15T22:54:04 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/flamingo-festival-returns-to-southwest-harbor/article_a77e5206-2355-11ee-9205-1b843a66891e.html |
VEAZIE -- The Veazie Police Department has made arrests after a month-long investigation into drug trafficking Saturday.
The department, with the assistance of the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office Special Response Team, executed a search warrant on Hobson Avenue in Veazie.
Police say four arrests have been made as a result of the search warrant: Richard Curtis and Christopher Mansell -- both of Veazie, and Angel Allen and George Purvis -- both of Bangor.
Purvis has been charged with two counts of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.
"We're a small community, but unfortunately drug trafficking impacts us as well. We take these very seriously. If you're aware of suspected activity in your neighborhood, please reach out to the Veazie Police Department. As you can see today, we take these seriously," said Veazie Police Department Chief Mark Leonard.
Police say various amounts of drugs were recovered during the search, including mushrooms, prescription drugs, marijuana, and fentanyl.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, Veazie Fire Department, and Orono Ambulance also assisted at the scene.
The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are expected. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/veazie-drug-bust-leads-to-multiple-arrests/article_28283596-2358-11ee-b48d-e75b9e2b7676.html | 2023-07-15T22:54:10 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/veazie-drug-bust-leads-to-multiple-arrests/article_28283596-2358-11ee-b48d-e75b9e2b7676.html |
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Firefighters are working to contain a large mulch fire in Pinellas County, authorities say.
On Saturday afternoon, Pinellas County officials say crews responded to a report of a mulch fire located on 126 Avenue North in Pinellas Park.
The Pinellas County Fire Department says flames from the fire are near an overpass where people usually throw their trash and junk.
The incident is a two-alarm fire in an industrial area, the department says.
Authorities say they are still working to contain the fire from spreading.
There are no reported injuries at the time of this writing. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/mulch-fire-pinellas-park/67-b398c27e-adae-42f8-b33e-fcbc9b3a849f | 2023-07-15T22:58:27 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/mulch-fire-pinellas-park/67-b398c27e-adae-42f8-b33e-fcbc9b3a849f |
PRYOR, Oklahoma — Canoo Inc. announced that the electric vehicle maker has expanded its partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop advanced battery technologies that can be used on operational military platforms.
The company said the technology will "set the stage for standardization of energy-dense lithium batteries for the U.S. Navy."
The announcement comes after the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit, or DIU, began testing Canoo's battery technology in February 2023, Canoo (Nasdaq: GOEV) said in a news release.
To read more about this partnership, our content partner Arkansas Business has the story here.
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DANVILLE, Va. – On Saturday, Danville Police say they arrested 44-year-old, Ebonie Michelle Holm and charged her with second degree murder.
Around 11:45 a.m., officers say they responded to the 100 block of Wimbush Plane for a well being check.
When officers arrived they found Holm’s mother, 61-year-old, Marie Boynton suffering from multiple stab wounds.
They say Boynton was pronounced dead a short time later by Danville’s Life Saving Crew.
Investigators say they are not seeking out any other individuals in this case.
Danville Police say this the city’s seventh homicide of 2023
Anyone who has information is asked to please contact the Danville Police Department by either calling patrol at 434-799-6510 option 4, investigations at 434-799-6508 option 1, and option 1 again, calling 911, contacting Crime Stoppers at 434-793-0000, approach any officer you see, through social media, via email crimetips@danvilleva.gov, or use our crime tips app CARE. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/15/danville-woman-charged-with-stabbing-her-mother-to-death-according-to-danville-police/ | 2023-07-15T23:31:08 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/15/danville-woman-charged-with-stabbing-her-mother-to-death-according-to-danville-police/ |
AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – On Friday, July 14, the Amherst County Sheriff’s Office said they were dispatched to a home on Boxwood Farm Road for reports of a elderly woman who was badly wounded and unconscious.
When deputies arrived to the scene, they found the victim dead having suffered multiple injuries. Deputies say because of this, they launched a homicide investigation.
The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office said a suspect has been identified and is in custody.
They said this is believed to be an isolated incident.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Investigator C. Tomlin at the Amherst County Sheriff’s Office at 434-946-9373, option 1. You can also call Central Virginia Crime Stoppers at (888)-798-5900. An anonymous tip can also be made online here or by downloading the P3 app on any mobile device. A cash reward of up to $1,000 may be available for tips that lead to an arrest in this crime. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/15/one-person-in-custody-after-elderly-woman-found-dead-according-to-amherst-county-sheriffs-office/ | 2023-07-15T23:31:14 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/15/one-person-in-custody-after-elderly-woman-found-dead-according-to-amherst-county-sheriffs-office/ |
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Silver Alert issued for missing Middletown man
Douglas Walker
Muncie Star Press
MIDDLETOWN, Ind. — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for a missing Middletown man.
The Middletown Police Department is investigating the disappearance of Toby Matthew Sanders, 24.
Sanders is six feet tall, 175 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a red T-shirt and black shorts.
He was most recently seen on Thursday, and was driving a red 2013 Chevrolet Cruise with Indiana license plate YJJ564.
The Middletown resident is "believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance," according to a release.
The Silver Alert was issued at 1:53 p.m. Saturday.
Anyone with information on Sanders' whereabouts is asked to call the Middletown Police Department at 765-354-2281. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/silver-alert-issued-for-missing-middletown-man/70417268007/ | 2023-07-15T23:37:34 | 0 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/silver-alert-issued-for-missing-middletown-man/70417268007/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. — As mid-evening approaches so will a few more passing downpours further in-land with lightning.
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Meteorologist George Waldenberger said Sunday morning will have a slightly different timeline for showers northwest of I-4.
In Orlando, late morning and afternoon thunderstorms are expected with temperatures hitting the low to mid 90s.
Read: Retired Orange County deputy shares insight after 2 officer-involved shootings this month
As the new week begins, look for scattered morning showers on Monday and afternoon storms.
As a result of an earlier onset of rain, temperatures aren’t expected to get as hot.
Read: Update: Missing man with dementia was found, Orange County deputies say
For the rest of the week, Central Florida is back to the extreme heat and scattered afternoon storms.
Subtropical Storm Don is out in the Central Atlantic and expected to meander far away from Orlando through next week.
No additional organized tropical systems are expected for the next 7 days.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an economic development Statement of Intent with the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and Foreign Nationals Abroad Olivier Becht while in Paris on Friday.
The stop was the final on a European tour for Abbott, his wife, First Lady Cecilia Abbott, and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson to promote economic partnerships between Texas and various European nations.
“Collaborating with our economic partners around the globe will ensure the Texas economy continues to flourish. By signing this statement of intent, it will encourage foreign business investment, promote economic development projects and increase trade opportunities between Texas and France. Forging strong economic bonds with reliable partners is more important now than ever. Texas is proud to have that strong partnership with France. Working together, we will bring more economic development opportunities to Texas from France than ever before,” Gov. Abbott said in a statement.
Abbott was joined by a Texas delegation that included the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism Executive Director Adriana Cruz and Texas Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors Vice Chairman Arun Agarwal.
France was the last stop in Abbott's economic development mission, which included trips to Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The delegation participated in a total of 20 meetings and events during the five-day trip. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 | 2023-07-15T23:39:16 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 |
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — The free airshow featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds reached capacity for visitors over three hours before they performed.
As of 1:50 p.m., all parking on the base was full and the shuttles from off-base locations weren’t able to get there by the time the Thunderbirds were scheduled to perform, according to Lakewood police.
According to JBLM, the parking lot at McChord Field reached capacity shortly after 9 a.m.
However, the same performance will be held on Sunday.
In addition to the Air Force’s team, visitors will be able to see more than 60 aircraft, from the Air Force and the Army, and historic planes, on McChord Field’s tarmac.
Show schedule
The show schedule is below. It is expected to be the same for both days:
9 a.m.: Gates open. Static displays, vendors and exhibits open.
11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.: Joint Force Demonstration
11:50 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.: Opening Ceremony
12:05 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.: Yellow Thunder
12:20 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.: Army Helo Demo
12:35 p.m. - 12:47 p.m.: Erickson Airshow Collection
12:47 p.m. - 12:59 p.m.: 22nd Special Tactics Squadron Parachute Demo
12:59 p.m. - 1:14 p.m.: Undaunted Airshow
1:14 p.m. - 1:29 p.m.: C-17 West Coast Demo Team
1:29 p.m. - 1:59 p.m.: Tora Tora Tora
1:59 p.m. - 2:14 p.m.: Stryker Co Demo
2:14 p.m. - 2:26 p.m.: Ace Maker
2:26 p.m. - 2:38 p.m.: Erickson Airshow Collection
2:38 p.m. - 2:43 p.m.: Foreign Object Debris Walk Required
2:43 p.m. - 3:43 p.m.: USAF Thunderbirds
3:45 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.: America's First Corps Band - Rock Band | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/air-show-joint-base-lewis-mcchord-capacity-3-hours-before-start-time/281-3d9195f9-1027-43f7-a6bf-c149212518fa | 2023-07-15T23:48:54 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/air-show-joint-base-lewis-mcchord-capacity-3-hours-before-start-time/281-3d9195f9-1027-43f7-a6bf-c149212518fa |
WEST FRIENDSHIP, Md. — Howard County Police are investigating a crash that killed one person in West Friendship on Saturday.
Around 12:44 p.m., a Mercedes-Benz GLE 350 was attempting to make a left turn onto eastbound Route 144 when it was struck by a Jeep Renegade traveling north on Route 32.
The rear passenger of the Mercedes, identified as 82-year-old In Ja Yi of West Friendship, was transported to Shock Trauma, where she later died.
The driver of the Mercedes and all three occupants of the Jeep were transported to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the collision is under investigation. Route 32 north was closed for approximately three hours. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/police-investigate-a-fatal-collision-in-west-friendship | 2023-07-15T23:49:39 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/police-investigate-a-fatal-collision-in-west-friendship |
CARMEL, Ind. — As Indianapolis looks forward to hosting the US Olympic Swimming Trials next year, one local academy is gearing up to make the next generation of swimmers.
Carmel Swim Academy hosted an open house Saturday in its new pool Saturday.
Planning for the pool has been going on for more than a decade and the community helped raise more than $700,000 to support it.
The goal of the open house was to bring in prospective swimmers and let parents and children get a glimpse of what the new facility has to offer.
There is space to teach over 1,300 children per week along with 55 hours of adult focused programs each week.
The academy is also working to make sure everyone is able to take classes regardless of finances. Students on free or reduced lunches, or whose families is on a utility assistance program, is eligible for free lessons.
Registration for programs opens up Saturday, July 22.
When it opens, click here to register. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/carmel-swim-academy-opens-new-pool-hosts-open-house-indiana/531-bc59c430-2135-4f9c-907e-3af2b51a7b33 | 2023-07-15T23:50:46 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/carmel-swim-academy-opens-new-pool-hosts-open-house-indiana/531-bc59c430-2135-4f9c-907e-3af2b51a7b33 |
First came the tremor in Pinal County.
In 2019, state water officials found that, looking out over 100 years, there will be a shortfall of available groundwater for new developments dependent on it.
Then came the earthquake in the Phoenix area. On June 1, the Arizona Department of Water Resources announced, similarly, that their model shows large unmet demand for water in the Phoenix area, forcing limits on groundwater-based development in outlying areas.
Tucson could be the aftershock. In the next year or two, the state is expected to complete a similar model of groundwater in the Tucson Active Management Area. Will the model show we'll also have unmet demand for water over the next century?
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As it turns out, probably not.
Signs are that Tucson will find itself in a different position than Pinal County or the Phoenix Active Management Area, because of differences in our local history, culture and economy.
While that may provoke a sigh of relief, it's not really good news. As the earthquake in Phoenix shakes out, we can see we may need the leverage of a projected shortfall to achieve the conservation we really need in the long run.
Now, the Tucson area has been a leader in conservation. That's one of the reasons a variety of experts told me that the active management area here is unlikely to be found in shortfall.
"Tucson has always been a different sort of community — a desert city that understood conservation and living within our means and embracing the desert city concept," said Val Little, founder of the Water Conservation Alliance of Southern Arizona.
That ethic goes back at least to the 1970s, when Tucson Water first started charging block rates — higher prices for greater levels of consumption. That's also when Pete the Beak, the Tucson Water mascot, appeared and encouraged people to conserve water, with success.
We were early and enthusiastic adopters of xeriscape, water harvesting, and low-flow appliances. Even as population rose in Tucson, water use declined.
Water outlook likely sufficient
Beyond conservation, another reason we'll likely be found to have sufficient water is that for more than two decades we've been banking Colorado River water funneled here by the Central Arizona Project.
"The relative demand compared to relative supply puts us in a better place," said Kathy Jacobs, director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona. "It isn’t just happenstance. It’s because we have a very large CAP allocation."
Then there's the fact we have little agricultural land compared to the Phoenix area and especially compared to Pinal County.
Overall, the outlook for the Tucson area leaves David Godlewski, president of the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association, pretty confident.
"We shouldn’t be in the same position (as Phoenix) because we have taken better care of our water resources," he said. "We are optimistic that as a region we're in a much better position that we’ll be able to grow and conserve water at the same time."
They are all probably right about the outcome of the Arizona Department of Water Resources study. Tucson is the only active management area of the five in Arizona that has actually achieved safe yield in recent years — a balance between water inflows and outflows.
But if we're not careful, that success could ultimately harm conservation efforts in the long run.
Demand and supply big factors
Consider the reaction of Godlewski's colleagues in the Phoenix area, the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona, to the shortfall announcement there, plus a couple of other key factors.
As my colleague Tony Davis reported, the vice president of that association, Spencer Kamps, pushed back hard against the model's finding at the first meeting of the governor's Assured Water Supply Committee on June 27.
"When you are in the process of selling homes to customers, and then this home will be shut down, the impacts will be substantial," Kamps complained. "People will lose money. And the demand for housing is not going away.”
In fact, the director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, Tom Buschatzke, was already showing that his department's findings might not be so firm as previously thought.
He announced two alternative ways far-flung developments that should be shut down under his department's finding might actually be able to get the water certificates they need. Buschatzke also expressed openness to tinkering with the model that made the massive shortfall finding.
In other words, the water model's findings, which seemed inflexible when announced, actually became flexible when powerful economic forces applied pressure.
And that's dangerous, because the model doesn't even take into account one key factor: Likely cuts to the supply of Colorado River water.
In other words, Tucson's active management area could be found to have a sufficient supply for groundwater-dependent housing developments. But then the CAP supply that helps justify that finding could be slashed by as much as half as the warming climate dries up the river.
In addition, rules allowing water to be pumped in one area and recharged in another area mean that deep holes in the water table can develop even under permitted conditions. Fissures and land subsidence can result.
Leverage for conservation
A 2022 report by the Bureau of Reclamation, University of Arizona and other institutions found that the Tucson area has four high-risk areas due to population growth and groundwater decline:
- The area north of Oro Valley from Catalina to Saddlebrooke
- A portion of the Tanque Verde valley not far from Sabino Canyon
- The far southeast side of Tucson
- The Green Valley area
A benefit of a shortfall finding would be that it would incentivize further infill development. That saves outlying land from sprawl and is more environmentally beneficial in terms of water and energy use, among other factors.
Kathleen Ferris, an author of the state's 1980 groundwater law and member of the assured water-supply committee, said there's a risk of postponing the inevitable.
"The more growth on groundwater that occurs, the more likely the model will eventually show unmet demand," she said.
Even if the state finds a sufficient 100-year supply, she said, "that doesn’t mean the pumping and use of that groundwater is sustainable."
It isn't, clearly, especially in a warming climate with population growth and a declining Colorado River.
We need tools to deal with this reality. And, it turns out, a model that shows we don't have a sufficient groundwater supply for 100 years of growth is just that — not a dictate but a tool. The Phoenix experience shows that.
A model finding a shortfall for the Tucson area could offer the needed leverage to force the conservation measures we'll eventually need.
Contact columnist Tim Steller at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-lets-hope-they-find-a-water-shortfall-in-tucson-area/article_2341c0c8-2269-11ee-8804-53b84b884024.html | 2023-07-15T23:50:56 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-lets-hope-they-find-a-water-shortfall-in-tucson-area/article_2341c0c8-2269-11ee-8804-53b84b884024.html |
One month into the monsoon season, which officially began June 15, Tucson has yet to record any rainfall.
There has been some monsoon rain in the overall metro area, particularly Vail on the southeast side, but not at Tucson International Airport, where the city's official weather gauges are.
That means the city is approaching the record for the latest official start of monsoon rain, set on July 20, 1901, the National Weather Service says.
That's for measurable rain. If you're talking about a trace of rain, we've already blown past Tucson's previous record for the latest trace to begin the season — July 11 in 1915 and 1955 — and we still don't have a trace this season.
And, Tucson set another record this week, when it marked three consecutive days with lows of 85 degrees or warmer.
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That streak could keep going if the temperature doesn't drop below 85 by midnight today, Saturday, July 15, since our morning low was 86, the weather service noted.
Today's high this afternoon is expected to be near 111 degrees and tomorrow's near 113.
The city has recorded 3.60 inches of rain since Jan. 1, but none since May 19.
Once the Tucson area's monsoon storms do ramp up, please send us your photos and videos of them to be featured in an upcoming gallery on tucson.com. Email them to eds@tucson.com, and please include the date and location.
A weather service meteorologist had previously said July 25, 1987 held the record for latest start to Tucson's monsoon rain, but that was actually the latest start to the city's monsoon season as it was previously defined — when the average dew point was at least 54 degrees for three consecutive days.
That definition is no longer used, and since 2008, the season has been officially defined as running from June 15 through Sept. 30. | https://tucson.com/news/local/weather/zero-monsoon-rain-for-tucson-one-month-into-season-heat-record-set/article_46a8711e-2350-11ee-8de4-73ff8f703420.html | 2023-07-15T23:51:02 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/weather/zero-monsoon-rain-for-tucson-one-month-into-season-heat-record-set/article_46a8711e-2350-11ee-8de4-73ff8f703420.html |
WARREN, Pa. — A homicide suspect who has been on the run since July 6 after he escaped from a prison in Pennsylvania has been taken into custody.
CNN reports that Micael Burham, 34, was captured in a wooded area near Warren.
Burham escaped the Warren County Prison by climbing on exercise equipment and climbing through a window. He used a rope made out of sheets to climb down from the window.
Prison officials told CNN Burham will be held in an isolation cell and will be moved from the prison after Sunday.
Channel 11 has reached out to the Jamestown Police Department for more information and is waiting to hear back.
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FRANKFORT, N.Y. — The sign on the window lets loyal customers know Melrose Market, in the Village of Frankfort, will soon be closing. If 'the end is near' sounds ominous, it's because it feels that way to the owners, who've put their heart and soul into the business for about 32 years.
"It's like losing your best friend," says owner, Linda LaValla. "I've been crying for a month."
It wasn't an easy decision for owners Joe and Linda LaValla. While there might never be a perfect time to pack it in, this seemed like the right time.
"We were approached seven years ago and my father had just passed away and he worked with me here, so I didn't have the heart to do it, so it's taken seven years for Stewart's to reapproach us and ask us, so we figured the door opened twice, it may not open a third time, we'd better go through it. We'd better take the offer," said Linda LaValla.
Whether you're a customer or employee, you're family. Marlene Tayler worked here. Her son, a Marine, also worked here. When he left to join the Corps, the store decorated patriotically and had a party for him.
"And I came in today, and Linda said 'I have something for you' and that's when she gave me the picture of my son that they've had hanging here for the last 15-16 years," said customer, Marlene Tayler, who also worked at the store.
It's the people making it so hard to close their doors.
"I come here once or twice a week. I'm by myself, wife died, so, this is the place I go. I'm going to miss it, for sure," said customer, Ron Raux.
"I feel like we're letting them down," said Linda LaValla. "We have customers, especially seniors, that count on our cooked foods. A lot of grandchildren will come and buy a week supply of food for their families so that they know they're having well-balanced meals. It's tough."
But while they'll miss them, their loyal customers don't begrudge them their much-deserved retirement.
"It's just sad to see them go, but I'm glad they're going to have a happy, healthy retirement and they can enjoy some time for themselves now," said Tayler.
They originally thought they had until December to prepare, but things moved along more quickly than expected, and July 22nd is their last day, and Stewarts plans to demolish the building in August and build a new Stewarts right next to the old one, which will come down. The LaVallas' plan is to spend more time with their kids and grandkids, and maybe travel. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/frankfort-staple-for-many-decades-melrose-market-to-close/article_c3dc6566-227c-11ee-91f7-a7e157582be7.html | 2023-07-16T00:00:49 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/frankfort-staple-for-many-decades-melrose-market-to-close/article_c3dc6566-227c-11ee-91f7-a7e157582be7.html |
State Route 88 has reopened in both directions just north of Apache Junction after closing earlier due to a brush fire.
The fire is at Milepost 201 near Lost Dutchman State Park, according to ADOT's Twitter.
State Route 88 has reopened in both directions just north of Apache Junction after closing earlier due to a brush fire.
The fire is at Milepost 201 near Lost Dutchman State Park, according to ADOT's Twitter. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/state-route-88-closed-in-both-directions-north-of-aj/75-3d923fb6-0581-4794-8239-01370b801573 | 2023-07-16T00:01:16 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/state-route-88-closed-in-both-directions-north-of-aj/75-3d923fb6-0581-4794-8239-01370b801573 |
WOODLAND, Calif. — Woodland fire crews are battling a multiple alarm fire that's spread to at least three homes Saturday, according to the Woodland Fire Department.
The fire began just after 2 p.m. near Lincoln Avenue and Elm Street. Three homes and an out house have been impacted by the fire but those impacts have not been specified by officials.
Two firefighters were injured with "heat-related ailments" but are recovering, according to officials.
Woodland fire crews requested help on the large fire, resulting in 24 engines from eight surrounding counties to respond and battle the blaze.
Roads are closed in a three block radius from the fire with no estimated time of reopening.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown.
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/woodland/woodland-fire/103-bff23501-7382-424f-a5e9-4dbfce9eb3de | 2023-07-16T00:15:11 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/woodland/woodland-fire/103-bff23501-7382-424f-a5e9-4dbfce9eb3de |
WOODLAND, Calif. — A power outage in Woodland has left nearly 2,200 people without electricity Saturday afternoon.
According to Pacific Gas & Electric's outage map, the outage began around 2:40 p.m. Saturday. Electricity is expected to be restored by 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
Crews are working to determine what caused the outage.
Watch more from ABC10: Verify: Will cellphones work if the power goes out? | PG&E Power Shutoffs | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/woodland/woodland-power-outage/103-14a44f4a-20ac-46b7-a780-9b6f5df7fd92 | 2023-07-16T00:15:17 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/woodland/woodland-power-outage/103-14a44f4a-20ac-46b7-a780-9b6f5df7fd92 |
AUSTIN, Texas — Holidays and big events can produce a great deal of trash on the ground and especially in the water.
Steven Kalman is originally from Hungary, and aims to make a difference in his new community by cleaning out the lakes in Central Texas.
Kalman goes snorkeling and scuba diving to pick up trash in New Braunfels every weekend and pulls trash out of Lady Bird Lake after busy days. Just after the recent Fourth of July holiday, he brought in a load of trash that included three discarded iPhones.
“I know when we have a big party or celebration like Fourth of July or something like this, that is like thousands of people, and I know they lost a lot of trash,” Kalman said.
According to a 2022 study by the City of Austin Watershed Protection, City staff and volunteers pull about 11 tons of trash from Lady Bird Lake each year.
Kalman said one of his largest loads from Lady Bird Lake was three years ago, after the first day of South by Southwest.
"I found three huge trash bags, 13 iPhones, like 12 IDs, [driver's] licenses, credit cards,” Kalman said.
With each haul, Kalman tries to connect people to their lost items by posting on Facebook. In some cases, he connects with them.
“I found [an] owner, he lives in Houston,” Kalman said. “Next day, I told him I can ship [it] for him with FedEx, but he said he [wanted] to come because he [wanted] to meet with me, so they drive [from] Houston to here and I [gave] back the phone."
Kalman said the best part of his clean up dives is feeling like he made a difference by removing trash from living nature.
"All waters are so beautiful, with tons of fish, tons of different animals and everything, and you know, when there is a lot of trash, it's so sad,” Kalman said. "It's weird to say I like to find trash, but it's also good, it [gives] me a good feeling because I feel I did something good.”
There are other organizations that also hold lake clean ups like Keep Austin Beautiful and The Trail Conservancy. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/volunteer-removes-trash-from-lady-bird-lake/269-fa46d01f-6ae5-4e88-969c-ea8c3bb19d44 | 2023-07-16T00:25:29 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/volunteer-removes-trash-from-lady-bird-lake/269-fa46d01f-6ae5-4e88-969c-ea8c3bb19d44 |
MIDLAND, Texas — On Saturday at about 4:40 p.m., Midland Fire Department responded to a fire in the 4700 block of Boulder Drive at the Fairmount Condos.
Fire investigators believe the fire started in the second floor apartment and spread to the unit beneath.
A total of eight units are affected by the fire with electricity cut to all apartments and smoke affecting all eight units.
No injuries were reported.
So far four families have been notified accounting for five adults and one child.
Red Cross has been notified to assist families in need. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-fire-department-responds-to-fairmont-condos-fire/513-39221792-38f4-45f6-978c-2a7e0e4db632 | 2023-07-16T00:36:18 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-fire-department-responds-to-fairmont-condos-fire/513-39221792-38f4-45f6-978c-2a7e0e4db632 |
MIDLAND, Texas — On Saturday at about 2:17 a.m., officers with the Midland Police Department responded to a fatality accident involving a motorcycle in the 800 block of Tradewinds Blvd. just south of Leisure Dr.
Investigators determined the driver of the motorcycle, 20-year-old Dalton Lane Sanders from Alvin, TX was traveling northbound on Tradewinds Blvd. at a high rate of speed and lost control of the motorcycle, resulting in the crash.
Sanders was pronounced dead at the scene.
Next of kin have been notified. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/motorcyclist-dies-in-accident-early-saturday-morning/513-61e2df50-25aa-48e5-9485-8bc08b5e75f6 | 2023-07-16T00:36:24 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/motorcyclist-dies-in-accident-early-saturday-morning/513-61e2df50-25aa-48e5-9485-8bc08b5e75f6 |
Manitowoc Aquatic Center plans special needs splash and adult pool party, plus more in weekly dose
Here's your weekly dose of community news from throughout Manitowoc County.
MANITOWOC – A little more than a month remains in the Manitowoc Family Aquatic Center season.
The center, 940 N. 18th St., is scheduled to end its season Aug. 20. Open swim is from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and noon-7 p.m. Fridays-Sundays.
Other swim times include Tot Time noon to 4 p.m. Mondays and 10-11:45 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; lap swim 10-11:45 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; and adult swim 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
A pair of events is planned as the season winds down.
First, a special needs splash time is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon July 22 and is open to individuals with special needs and their caregivers.
And second, an adult pool party for ages 21 and older will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4, including concessions with brats and burgers and adult beverages available for purchase — plus music by The Bob & Scott Show DJs.
Season passes to the center and 10-punch passes are available at the Recreation Office, 3330 Custer St. The pool can be reached at 920-686-3590.
Don't forget the Aquatic Center’s mini golf course is also open, with daily hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Aug. 20.
Welcome to your weekly dose.Here is more news from throughout Manitowoc County.
Two Rivers' Great Bike Give-A-Way is July 26
Two Rivers Optimist Club’s annual Great Bike Give-A-Way will be July 26 at Walsh Field, 2201 Polk St., Two Rivers.
Admission is free and a concession truck will be on site.
Registration starts at 6 p.m. and a drawing for more than 100 bikes begins at 6:30 p.m. Children 2-12 are eligible to enter the drawing to win a new bike to take home that night.
Helmets are also available, and volunteers will be available to help fit the helmet.
Call 920-794-4787 for more details.
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Maritime Museum offers special screening of ‘Eastland: The Shipwreck that Shook America’
Wisconsin Maritime Museum, 75 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, will offer a special viewing of the award-winning documentary “Eastland: The Shipwreck that Shook America” July 21.
During the day, the museum will show the “Eastland” documentary from 1 to 2:30 p.m. followed by two other documentaries also by producer Harvey Moshman: “Heroes on Deck: World War II on Lake Michigan” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. and “Lost & Found: The Search for USS Lagarto” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
In the evening, a shortened screening of the “Eastland” documentary at 6:30 p.m. will be followed by a presentation by Moshman with behind-the-scenes photos and materials. He will also have a Q&A session with attendees.
Admission to the screenings is free and a small cash bar will be available in the evening. Visit wisconsinmaritime.org or call 920-684-0218 for more details.
Kiel Municipal Band presents ‘Oldies-Pops, Classic Movies and More!’ July 19
Kiel Municipal Band, under the direction of Jon Meyer, will present the third of its summer concerts at City Park at 7 p.m. July 19.
The event is called “Oldies-Pops, Classic Movies and More!” and will feature oldies music and a suite of music from a couple of classic movies.
The program will open with a march by the Wautoma bandleader Ernest Weber titled “Transcontinental March.”
The pops music breaks out with a rendition of “Serenata,” a new beguine-style piece by Victor Lopez.
The band will perform one of Billy Joel’s hits, “Just the Way You Are.” This was one of the tunes that the KMB played at its second appearance at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic at Chicago in 1979.
There will be a series of solos from various band members in “My Way” and “Wipe Out.”
Classic movies will be celebrated with a “Salute to Bob Hope.” The medley includes some of his all-time hit songs like “The Road to Morocco,” “Moonlight Becomes You,” “Buttons and Bows,” “Two Sleepy People” and “Thanks for the Memory.”
Music from the movie series “Pirates of the Caribbean” will be performed and a surprise visitor from the past may make an appearance: the famous buccaneer Captain Ward.
The concert is free, family friendly and open to everyone. Food will be available prior to and during the concert. The location in case of rain is the middle school gym.
Bags & Brews for Ascend Services Aug. 12 at Sabbatical Brewing Co.
Manitowoc’s Ascend Services is partnering with Sabbatical Brewing Co. for a “Toss with all your Heart Bags & Brews” cornhole tournament fundraiser.
The event will be from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 12 at Sabbatical, 835 S. 29th St. Included will be a cornhole tournament, live music from Nettle Hill from 2 to 5 p.m., plus a special Ascend drink, raffles, prizes and more. Holla on Wheels food truck will also be on site.
Registration for the tournament is open online via the Facebook event or ascendservicesinc.org, or contact Deanna Genske at dgenske@ascendservicesinc.org or 920-682-4663, ext. 111, for more details.
Manitowoc receives WisDOT payment for bridge lift expenses
Manitowoc is among four Lake Michigan cities to receive annual payment from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to support marine commerce.
Manitowoc received $132,752.06 for operating costs for the Eighth Street lift bridge and $29,876.98 for operating costs for the 10th Street lift bridge.
Other cities receiving payment included Green Bay, Milwaukee and Racine. The lift bridges in these cities allow passage of taller ships into the cities and oceangoing vessels have access to these ports via the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Municipalities submit their lift bridge operating costs to WisDOT. The $2.3 million payment, made July 3, fully covers the submitted expenses for all four cities.
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Lift bridges raise a section of roadway vertically. Bascule bridges, which are sometimes called drawbridges, tip up two sections of the roadway on pivots.
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Veterans treat Detroit's first responders to barbecue
For Detroit army veteran Paul Palazzolo, serving in the armed forces is more than a service to the country. It's a foundation upon which community, bonding and camaraderie is built upon.
Palazzolo, 77, who served in the Vietnam War from 1967-69, said when he returned home from deployment, he and other veterans were met with public animosity and hostility. Now, extending gratitude to first responders who offer their lives in service to others is his way of paying it forward, ensuring that those who serve feel appreciated.
On Saturday, despite the drizzle of rain, dozens joined the Detroit Chapter #9 of the Vietnam Veterans of America, the Associate Vietnam Veterans of America and the Metropolitan Detroit Veterans Coalition, who hosted a barbecue for Detroit's first responders, featuring assortments of food, beverages and the sounds of Motown.
"We thought about this event five years ago, to give back to police officers, firefighters and other first responders," said Palazzolo, president of the Detroit Vietnam vets chapter. "This is what veterans do — we look out each other and our brave; we're family."
Palazzolo said Saturday's luncheon, held at 2951 Woodward Avenue at Temple, in Detroit, served as a "thank you" gesture as his group and other veteran service organizations throughout Metro Detroit gear-up for the Veteran's Day parade scheduled for Nov. 5.
"We don't do it for the applause, we do it for the cause," said Army veteran Jerry Eden, parade manager for the Metropolitan Detroit Veterans Coalition. He said he's expecting 1,500-3,000 participants in this year's parade.
"Its about getting together with all these people," said army veteran Phil Harrison, 60, of Auburn Hills. "Veterans are a rare breed; there's something about us that makes us want to do for other people, including our first responders."
Palazzolo said as his group continues to partner with local organizations and local VA hospitals in Michigan, he hopes to bring more awareness to veteran initiatives that assist them and their families throughout Metro Detroit.
"We're working to build a Fisher House, where veterans' families can stay at no cost with free food while their loved one gets out of the hospital, on Woodward Avenue just north of the (Grand) Boulevard," Palazzolo said. "Chapter 9 has given close to $40,000 towards that."
Palazzolo said Detroit's Fisher House completion date is targeted for early 2024, and will be the largest one in the country. Michigan's first Fisher House is located in Ann Arbor.
Saturday's event, according to Palazzolo, was the group's first in-person gathering since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The pandemic caused us to switch to having food delivered for a while, but now we’re glad to be back outside," Palazzolo said in a statement.
"We've been shutdown for a few years since COVID, not being able to get back together, but we're back," Harrison said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It's been almost four months since a tornado in Central Arkansas damaged hundreds of homes and businesses.
Some areas, like Walnut Valley in West Little Rock, are still cleaning up the March tornado's aftermath.
On Saturday, the whole community of Walnut Valley rallied together to clean up a park, cutting weeds and mowing the grass.
However, this is more than just the typical yard work.
"Somedays it's heartbreaking," Walnut Valley resident Lauren Crutchfield said. "Somedays, we feel so blessed with all the help that comes out."
Crutchfield and her husband moved to Walnut Valley in December, not realizing the devastation that would soon hit their house.
"Two trees had fallen on our house, and we really couldn't even assess the damage until the next day," Crutchfield said. "It was unreal."
While houses still lack roofs and debris lines the road, the community park is unrecognizable from before the storm.
"Every time I drive through the neighborhood, I turn down the wrong street because it doesn't look the same," said John Payne, the neighborhood's HOA president.
Along with handling the park's landscaping, neighbors also removed trash.
"We moved here because of the neighborhood's legacy," Payne said. "It's important to get it back as best as possible. Even better if we can do that."
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TWIN FALLS COUNTY, Idaho — A 28-year-old woman was killed and three juveniles were injured after a crash near Kimberly Saturday afternoon, Idaho State Police reported.
Police said the Twin Falls woman was driving west in a Chevrolet Equinox when the vehicle hit the back of a pickup and camper trailer parked on the right shoulder of East 3900 North. The woman was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene of the crash.
The three passengers of the Equinox, all juveniles, were taken to an area hospital by ground ambulance. Idaho State Police said the passengers were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the collision.
A 40-year-old man from Jordan, Utah, was in the parked Chevrolet Silverado pulling a trailer. Saturday's news release did not say whether the man was injured.
Idaho State Police are asking anyone who witnessed the crash to contact its District 4 Office at 208-324-6000 and reference case T2300703. The collision on East 3900 North happened around 11:45 a.m. Saturday, west of State Highway 50.
Traffic on the road was blocked for roughly five hours after the crash as emergency responders assisted and cleared the scene.
The Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office, Kimberly Police Department, Rock Creek Fire, Rock Creek QRU, Magic Valley Paramedics and Air St. Luke's assisted ISP in Saturday's incident.
The crash is under investigation by Idaho State Police.
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BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Crew members of the USS Boise participate in hometown visits once a year. During their visit this weekend, one thing in particular stood out.
“This is probably the cleanest place that I’ve ever been,” Overhaul Coordinator Dustin Wolcott said.
On Thursday, the Boise Metro Chamber unveiled a new tribute wall, sponsored by Idaho Central Credit Union, for the USS Boise and its crew. According to President and CEO of the Boise Metro Chamber Bill Connors, the tribute wall is intended to serve as a destination for those who have and will serve on the USS Boise and as a reminder of the support those service members have in Boise.
The wall includes an honor roll for those who served on the Boise to sign. Lt. Cmdr. Derik Rothchild was the first to sign the honor roll.
“It’s an honor,” Rothchild said. “It’s one of those things that I’ve always dreamed about with regards to having that legacy and being able to put my name on a building. Well, this is the first step. I’ll keep working towards that name on a building someday.”
The tribute wall is something Rothchild will direct his family to for years to come, he said.
“I can tell my grandchildren to come here,” Rothchild said. “I have family in the area, so I can tell my family for years and years, you can see my name (here).”
The USS Boise is a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine in active service with the United States Navy.
Most submarines of this class are named after American cities or towns.
“This chamber has been long supporters of our military,” Connors said. ”National security is important to the business community, and we want to support our troops and wherever they are.”
The USS Boise was launched on March 23, 1991. In 2002, it was a part of the John F. Kennedy strike group during Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003, it delivered some of the opening shots of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The submarine is currently in a dry dock undergoing maintenance.
“Right now we’re doing a lot of external hull and tank work and stuff like that,” Wolcott said. “And then we’ll get into the overhaul where they basically rip everything apart, renew it and then put it back together.”
The submarine should be back on the water in the next four or five years, Wolcott said. With all that waiting, it’s clear that perseverance and patience are big parts of the Boise story, Wolcott said.
“It’s tough when you’re on the blocks and there’s holes cut your ship,” Wolcott said. “But we do a good job, we send (crew members) out to other boats so they can rise to the sea.”
Things like this hometown visit help the crew members too.
“I’ve been around 23 years and I still get motivated just meeting people and seeing how invested they are in the boat,” Wolcott said.
The wall and the honor roll stand as a witness to Rothchild and his team that the things they do on a daily basis are appreciated by people in Boise.
“I’ve never heard of a tribute wall out of all the other submarines and we got one. It’s amazing,” Rothchild said. “We definitely do appreciate everything that committee is doing for us and really the city itself, because it’s all one line of effort towards being able to exercise our freedoms as American citizens.”
Connors is also a part of the USS Boise committee, which raises money to give sailors while they’re serving.
“I don’t know how these guys do it. It’s just an incredible commitment to be on a nuclear-powered submarine,” Connors said. “I’m just very proud of these people and hopefully, they’ll become proud of Boise over the years.”
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — You will not find anyone more excited than Keetonia Wilson.
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On Saturday morning, Habitat for Humanity handed Wilson house keys to her new Apopka home as her three children looked on.
But while it was a day to celebrate with her two teens and two-year-old, she admits that it was a long road to becoming a homeowner.
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Back in 2015 an accident left Wilson, a college educated single parent, disabled and unable to work.
She decided to move her family to Orlando from Miami.
Unfortunately, the Wilson family ended up almost homeless for a year as she waited for her disability benefits.
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When her children asked when they were going to be able to have their own place again, she promised not only would they get a place to live, but eventually buy a home that would always be theirs.
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Fast forward to Saturday, eight years since the single parent and her children were homeless, they moved into their new house.
Sometimes things happen when you have your life all planned out,” Wilson said.
“At the same time the house was being built, I was being built.” she added.
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Phoenix breaks daily high temperature with 118 degrees, hottest daily high in 25 years
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Phoenix eclipsed a daily high temperature record with 118 degrees on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service Phoenix's Twitter account.
This temperature breaks the previous record of 117 degrees that was set on the same day 25 years before on July 15, 1998, according to Extreme Weather Watch.
The daily record was set at 3:41 p.m. at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, according to the National Weather Service.
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As Idaho’s top legal officer, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador is tasked with defending the state and its agencies, but the role can be expanded to exert nationwide influence.
In Labrador’s first six months in office, he participated in more than 100 multi-state lawsuits; he led seven of those legal efforts, according to a public records request. Since the request was filed, his office joined at least one more that pushed against an Environmental Protection Agency proposed rule on emissions.
This is a pretty significant departure from how the office ran for 20 years under the previous attorney general, Lawrence Wasden.
To those paying attention though, the change isn’t exactly surprising. On the campaign trail, Labrador criticized the previous administration for not joining more federal lawsuits, and he said at a debate in April 2022 that he would be “more aggressive,” the Idaho Press previously reported.
“I think the greatest battles for the soul of our nation and the soul of our state are happening in the federal courts,” Labrador said at the time.
From 2003 through 2022, Wasden participated in 33 amici efforts, according to a records request. An amicus brief is designed to assist the court by providing further information or advice regarding questions of law or fact.
During the April debate, Wasden responded to criticism by saying, “I sued the federal government over vaccine mandates. I’ve sued the federal government repeatedly. … You have to try and make sure that you have a legitimate cause of action, and that’s what we do.”
Wasden did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The answer to how involved state attorneys general should be in out-of-state or multi-state issues differs depending on the person who holds office.
Former Attorney General David Leroy, who endorsed Labrador in the election, said it’s an increasingly important role of the office. Leroy served from 1979 to 1983 and later served as lieutenant governor.
“In the ‘70s and ‘80s, we had far less litigation on federal issues,” he said, “not because the attorneys general were less active or communicative, but because the federal government was relatively smaller and less involved in every aspect of people’s lives then than it has become now.”
He supported Labrador’s legal actions on these nationwide issues.
“It’s certainly true that Raúl promised to be an activist attorney general on these kinds of issues, but that activism, in my opinion, is far more than a campaign promise,” Leroy said. “It’s a necessary duty of whomever is attorney general of Idaho, without regard to political party.”
Other states’ attorneys general’s offices regularly communicate about regional or national issues and sometimes solicit participation from other offices, he said. When considering whether or not to join, Leroy would consider if the issue substantially affected Idahoans or if the Gem State would have a unique point of view that should be addressed and would add to the argument.
He said he would also look at issues that could create a useful legal precedent and had a reasonable likelihood of success.
Another former Idaho attorney general, Jim Jones, agrees that there seem to be more federal lawsuits today. Jones, who supported Labrador’s opponent Tom Arkoosh in the election, served from 1983 to 1991 and later as a justice on the state Supreme Court.
He said he tried to join them “sparingly” and criticized Labrador’s use of the tool. He also argued that in many cases, signing onto other states’ briefs doesn’t necessarily make much of a difference in the outcome.
“They don’t sit around counting how many states are signed onto a particular brief,” Jones said.
Typically, signing onto an amicus brief doesn’t take much time or work from the office, both Jones and Leroy said, unless the office is doing something unique or leading the lawsuit. However, if leading a cause, having other states sign on can reduce the cost by getting briefings and ideas from other attorneys general.
“It’s just a Kabuki dance,” Jones said of the briefs Labrador has signed onto. “It’s a means of getting publicity for doing hardly anything.”
An emailed statement from Labrador’s office said that Labrador’s work has included amicus briefs, complaints, and oversight letters “challenging Biden Administration policies, proposed regulations, or agency actions.”
“Unlike the previous Attorney General, Attorney General Labrador has also taken the lead on several multistate efforts, including four amicus briefs that have garnered the support from as many as 24 fellow attorneys general,” the statement said. “Republican Attorneys General around the country have been vocal about the change in posture and aggressiveness from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office and have welcomed our leadership and our collaboration in the fight against federal overreach.”
These lawsuits have covered a broad spectrum of issues.
On July 5, the office announced that Labrador joined a group of 16 states, led by Kansas, to challenge a proposed U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule that would allow some illegal immigrants to access health care under the Affordable Care Act.
On June 2, the office led 23 other states in challenging California’s Unsafe Handgun Act, arguing it violated the Second Amendment.
In early May, he joined 20 other states to defend a Colorado cake maker’s ability to refuse to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple, arguing it was a violation of his First Amendment rights.
Other lawsuits have centered around immigration, robocalls, abortion, transgender athletes, religious rights, water regulations, and more.
Leroy said that joining cases such as these are in Idaho’s interest, even when they involve laws in other states or jurisdictions outside the Northwest.
“It’s adding Idaho’s sovereign voice to the process of seeking an important ruling that affects national and Idaho rights,” he said.
He said that while courts don’t make their opinions based on how many states sign onto an issue that, “There is some utility to showing unanimity of opinion by a large number of states if something is to be presented and considered at the highest levels of our judicial system.”
Leroy said national litigation he would usually join often involved public lands, water rights and taxation, he said, because these were all of substantial interest to Idaho.
For Jones, he said he focused on many consumer-related issues and the sale of dangerous medications.
Jones characterized many of the cases Labrador has worked on as “culture wars” and “a waste of time.”
“Unless you can contribute something, it’s best to just keep your powder dry and do the work the people hired you to do,” he said.
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MACKINAW — A 9-year-old boy has died after a collision with a vehicle on Friday night in Mackinaw.
The Mackinaw Police Department was notified around 9:02 p.m. Friday of a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian in the 100 block of Main Street, the department stated in a news release Saturday evening. Police response to the scene, along with the Mackinaw Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services.
The pedestrian, identified as Adrian Taylor-Zehr, 9, of Mackinaw, was transported to OSF Healthcare Saint Francis Medical Center. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said the boy was unresponsive, not breathing and had no pulse and, despite "aggressive resuscitative efforts and care," he was pronounced deceased at 10:06 p.m.
Harwood said Taylor-Zehr suffered multiple blunt-force trauma injuries.
The incident remains under investigation by the Illinois State Police Traffic Crash Reconstruction Unit. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Mackinaw Police Department at 309-359-8914.
The crash occurred in the midst of the community's Mack-A-Fest festival and carnival. All remaining Mack-A-Fest activities were canceled, according to a post made Saturday morning on the event's Facebook page.
"In light of the tragic events of last night, all Mack-A-Fest events are cancelled," the post read. "As an event intended to build community, our hearts are broken with the loss to our community. We ask for prayers for the family and our community."
The Deer-Creek Mackinaw School District, while not naming Taylor-Zehr, did say on its Facebook page that the boy who died Friday night in a "car related accident" was an elementary student in the district.
"We are committed to doing everything we can to help our students, staff, and community with the grieving and healing process," Superintendent Damon Hackett said in the post.
He continued, "This loss will affect so many in our Dee-Mack family. Students may have a difficult time dealing with the loss, and we encourage you to talk with your child."
New Castle said on its Facebook page that it will proceed with its planned "Church in the Park" service at 11 a.m. Sunday at Mackinaw Veterans Park, 100 E. Fast Ave.
A special offering will be taken for the boy's family, the church said, and a prayer team will be available.
"As we gather on Sunday, let us hold one another close, allowing our love and compassion to embrace those who are grieving," the church stated. "May the light of God's love shine upon our community, guiding us towards strength, unity, and the comfort that comes from knowing we are not alone."
New Castle also shared that another local congregation, Hope Baptist Church, will host a bake sale at 10:30 a.m. in the IGA grocery store parking lot, 100 N. Main St., with all proceeds to be given to the grieving family.
Contact Robyn Skaggs at robyn.skaggs@lee.net or 309-820-3244.
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PITTSBURGH — Smoke poured out of a house after it caught on fire in Pittsburgh.
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Allegheny County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to 200 Venture Street in Perry North at around 4:37 p.m. on Saturday.
Smoke from the house fire grew thick enough to create a haze around the neighborhood.
The roof sustained heavy damage and flames could be seen burning between the shingles and the wall of the house.
The home is abandoned and unoccupied.
Investigators say no one was hurt.
The same house caught on fire in Nov. 2020. That fire was under control in under 30 minutes.
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Some local schools go back to class in less than two weeks.
A backpack giveaway Saturday not only gave students the supplies they need, but also prayers for their safety amid increasing violence.
You can call it lending a hand for those who might need it the most.
"God bless you, do good," said one volunteer.
A blessing and words of encouragement go along with each book bag handed out here at Martin University.
"I figured 'oh well, we could use backpacks' so I figured we would just come check it out," said America Becsey.
Becsey was one of hundreds of parents or guardians who came out to the third annual Back to School Backpack Giveaway.
She has two boys.
"He's almost nine and he's almost four, so he's just starting pre-K and he's going into third grade," Becsey said.
The process was pretty simple. Families signed in before volunteers prayed over them. It's something organizers say they wanted to do with increased shootings across the country.
"We believe that the youth are our future and there seems to be an attack against them," said Debbie Cooley, an organizer from the event.
Each family received a backpack for each child in their family.
Becsey called it a true blessing.
"When you look at the price tags for some things, who has thirty dollars to throw at a backpack? For a third grader that might come home with it ripped, you know. This is a big help for even us," Becsey said.
There are more backpack giveaways planned in the coming weeks. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/volunteers-deliver-backpacks-school-supplies-and-prayer-for-safe-school-year-martin-university-education/531-56dd5826-365c-437a-aed7-82e86f7cc4af | 2023-07-16T01:26:36 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/volunteers-deliver-backpacks-school-supplies-and-prayer-for-safe-school-year-martin-university-education/531-56dd5826-365c-437a-aed7-82e86f7cc4af |
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Humphreys named Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award recipient
James “Jimbo” Humphreys Jr., a West Texas cowboy who has excelled in nearly every facet of ranch life, will be the fifth recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association (RHA) Working Cowboy Award presented during the annual National Golden Spur Award Honors on Friday, Nov. 3, at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts & Sciences in Lubbock, Texas.
“The RHA Working Cowboy Award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback, caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, executive director of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University and the Ranching Heritage Association, in a news release. “Jimbo is a cowboy’s cowboy, plus he’s been a wagon cook, made bits and spurs and even manages a ranch. Most of all he’s done it while embodying the values of cow country.”
The Ranching Heritage Association, a nationwide non-profit membership organization supporting the programs of the National Ranching Heritage Center, sponsors the award on an annual basis to honor a working cowboy skilled in all aspects of ranch work and respected by the ranch crew and ranching community.
Humphreys has pursued cowboy life from various directions – making a living by punching cows, cooking on chuckwagons, training horses, building fences and corrals, crafting bits and spurs, and now, managing a large cow-calf operation on the Guitar Ranches.
“I was always interested in every facet of the ranching industry, and never have got completely away from it,” Humphreys stated. “I went off in some different directions, but it was still tied back to the ranching life. I’ve just always been around it and never really tried to get away from it. I’ve tried to do it all.”
Humphreys grew up on the Pitchfork Land & Cattle Co. ranch in Guthrie, where his father, James “Jim” Humphreys Sr., served as ranch manager for most of Jimbo’s childhood. Jimbo began cowboying in junior high school, where he was paid a dollar a day, upgrading to five dollars a day once he entered high school.
At the start of his freshman year of college at Texas Tech University, Humphreys was drafted to the Army through the draft lottery in 1971. He spent six years in a platoon in Levelland before returning to the Pitchfork Ranch where he gained an interest in welding by building pens and corrals.
Around this time, Humphreys stopped riding altogether. He admitted that he had become a little jaded toward the lifestyle because of the rougher way horses were handled and trained in that era. However, discovering clinician and horseman Ray Hunt’s gentler and more considerate approach to horsemanship drew Humphreys back to the horse business.
Humphreys started applying Hunt’s methods to training horse teams to assist with fencing and pulling the chuck wagon. Humphreys recalls he got into the cooking business through the fencing business by cooking for his crew while out on the job building fences. He cooked for several well-known ranching figures, including Ray Hunt, Bob Moorhouse, Buster Welch and Craig Haythorn.
As Humphreys entered back into the horse business, he also mastered another skill – building bits and spurs. “I didn’t have any equipment, and I needed some bits and other things, but couldn’t afford to go buy any,” Humphreys said. “I welded, so I’d repaired a few bits before, and I’d get a pattern off and make me a pair. One thing led to another, and that’s how I got into that business.”
Humphreys' return to the horse business eventually led him to the Stock Horse of Texas Association where he was among the association’s top open riders. He also frequently competed in American Quarter Horse Association and Ranch Horse Association of America shows.
In 1995, Humphreys started working for the Guitar Ranches, a third-generation family-run operation, performing various jobs and earning the role of ranch manager.
When asked about the most rewarding part of his well-rounded cowboying career, Humphreys replied, “Probably the diversity of it. The overall – everything. I don’t know if I could pick out one thing. I am just thankful for every bit of it.”
Humphreys’ lifetime of cowboying accomplishments will be honored at the National Golden Spur Award Honors on November 3. Tickets for the National Golden Spur Award Honors are available to the public for purchase beginning July 28. For event details and ticketing information visit goldenspurhonors.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/humphreys-named-ranching-heritage-association-working-cowboy-award-recipient/70417320007/ | 2023-07-16T01:50:00 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/15/humphreys-named-ranching-heritage-association-working-cowboy-award-recipient/70417320007/ |
VASSALBORO -- Firefighters responded to a residence after a vehicle fire escalated to a nearby home.
According to the Vassalboro Fire Department's Facebook page Friday around 8:01 p.m firefighters were called to a residence on Hussey Hill Road for reports of a structure fire.
However responding firefighters quickly realized it was actually a vehicle covered in heavy fire only 10 feet from the home.
Winslow Fire Department assisted with a tanker and crew as a precaution as the location of the incident was distinguished as out of the hydrant district, according to a press release.
Despite the severity of the fire, firefighters reportedly extinguished the fire within minutes. A release states that the exterior of the home sustained damage but the home remains livable.
There were no reported injuries during the incident. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/vehicle-fire-spreads-to-nearby-home/article_68cd1302-236a-11ee-b6b6-3fd7f2f31b73.html | 2023-07-16T01:56:56 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/vehicle-fire-spreads-to-nearby-home/article_68cd1302-236a-11ee-b6b6-3fd7f2f31b73.html |
DODGE CO., Minn.--As technology continues to help investigators with cases every day, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office is taking to the Dodge County Fair to show how they use their drone.
The main calls for the nearly $10,000 drone have been helping to find missing people, suspects that flee from traffic stops or crimes, and even tracking down large animals that are causing traffic hazards.
One of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Tyler Vermeersch, says it's allowed the department to get to a scene as quick as 15 minutes to start scoping out the area.
Vermeersch says there is one disadvantage to the drones.
“The drone can't see through thick vegetation,” he shares. “So if we're flying over a forestry area, we can't see through the leaves. So we're about as useful as a helicopter in the same regard.”
He adds that open area fields, corn field, soybean fields are fair game because they can see through the rows."
As of now only two deputies–Vermeersch and Chris Purdue, are trained to use the drone and are responsible for finding other uses for it. Vermeersch shares how the department is influencing other agencies.
"We're gaining some good notoriety around the area. Other agencies are reaching out to us and asking how we set up a program,” he says.
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office also says it used their drone earlier this year to help nearby agencies in the search for missing Winona mother, Madeline Kingsbury. | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/dodge-county-sheriffs-office-introduces-drone-to-the-community/article_675ba53c-2366-11ee-a875-0337b6f74bc6.html | 2023-07-16T02:05:44 | 1 | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/dodge-county-sheriffs-office-introduces-drone-to-the-community/article_675ba53c-2366-11ee-a875-0337b6f74bc6.html |
DUPONT, Pa. — For more than 60 years, folks at a church in Luzerne County have been serving up chicken dinners for an annual fundraiser.
It takes more than a week of prep work to get everything ready at Holy Mothers of Sorrows Church in Dupont.
The main attraction: the open pit chicken barbeque cooked over charcoal.
Volunteers say it's a great way to connect to the community.
"This is definitely fun, just something, gets everyone involved. People can see this from you know good distance away. We were up at Walmart earlier and you can see the smoke coming from here something - yep that buzz. Oh hey what's going on down there? Come down and find out hey, we got a nice chicken dinner coming so then adds to that," said Anthony Shumlas
The church in Luzerne County served more than 400 dinners on Saturday.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/chicken-barbeque-raises-money-for-church-in-luzerne-county-dupont-holy-mother-of-sorrows-church/523-d4216c3a-c9d9-4438-95a9-cbc22e40bc6e | 2023-07-16T02:06:22 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/chicken-barbeque-raises-money-for-church-in-luzerne-county-dupont-holy-mother-of-sorrows-church/523-d4216c3a-c9d9-4438-95a9-cbc22e40bc6e |
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — A farm in Monroe County taught its community about simpler times on Saturday - while celebrating a major milestone.
It's a step back in time at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm in Hamilton Township, near Stroudsburg.
"My mom's dream was always to start a museum where they could show how the ordinary common family lived on a humble farm, instead of museums that showed how the rich and famous lived," said Sue Oiler, the co-founder of Quiet Valley.
That dream became a reality on July 13, 1963, for Sue Oiler's mom, after the family purchased the land.
Now - Quiet Valley is celebrating its 60th anniversary of showcasing life on the farm in the 1900s.
Around the farm, you'll find volunteers tending to the animals in the barn, baking bread, and making items by hand.
"I think it is very valuable more than ever as technology advances and things happen I think going back to our roots is more important than ever," said Carlena Back, a member of the Quiet Valley Board of Directors.
Oiler says for the first eight years, the farm was private - then they gathered enough support to open it to the public.
Visitors told Newswatch 16 that many of them came to Quiet Valley when they were children, and now they're sharing this history with their own children.
"It's amazing that it lasted this long it brings back the word of legacy and heritage and how you can share a moment of the past even in the future with your children," said David Hagstrand of East Stroudsburg.
Oiler hopes it will continue for another 60 years.
"It's pretty exciting to me when a family has come to visit and when they leave they look to me and say thank you to your family for preserving this it's so wonderful to go back in time to spend a day, we really feel like we experienced the past," said Oiler.
The farm is open for tours Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/quiet-valley-farms-in-monroe-county-celebrates-60-years-stroudsburg-hamilton-township/523-d7c54266-4f6f-4321-a6d3-dd6b84e26dbe | 2023-07-16T02:06:28 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/quiet-valley-farms-in-monroe-county-celebrates-60-years-stroudsburg-hamilton-township/523-d7c54266-4f6f-4321-a6d3-dd6b84e26dbe |
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — Crews continued their search on Saturday for a missing swimmer in Monroe County.
Officials say Jose Madera-Martinez, 19, of New Jersey, went missing on Thursday night at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
He and three others tried to swim across the Delaware River from the New Jersey side.
One made it to shore, two others had to be rescued.
Officials say Madera-Martinez was last seen struggling in the current.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/search-continues-for-missing-swimmer-in-monroe-county-delaware-water-gap-national-recreational-area-new-jersey/523-185f5ba1-dfcf-4e90-ad85-ffb1061b4b3a | 2023-07-16T02:06:34 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/search-continues-for-missing-swimmer-in-monroe-county-delaware-water-gap-national-recreational-area-new-jersey/523-185f5ba1-dfcf-4e90-ad85-ffb1061b4b3a |
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Before morning meteorologist Joe Snedeker takes his big Go Joe 26 ride at the end of July, some cyclists in Luzerne County took a ride of their own on Saturday.
Spinning wheels, spinning tracks, and spinning resistance.
All to sweat for a cause under the sun at Susquehanna Brewing Company in Jenkins Township, near Pittston in support of Go Joe 26.
"We started community events about three years ago when Joe couldn't ride so that we could keep community awareness about Joe's ride and the mission of St. Joseph's Center," said Marylou Grogan, a member of the Go Joe ride committee.
This is one of several events that take place leading up to Joe's ride.
"So it's getting the enthusiasm built in our community for the wonderful ride that Joe does every year, and it's encouraging folks to get out your bikes, celebrate each other, celebrate the community, and celebrate St. Joe's," said Grogan.
This is the third year The Cycle Yard in Pittston has brought out its instructors to host a workout as a fundraiser.
"What Go Joe and St. Joseph's Center does for the community is so beautiful. And so to be a part of it is really, really great and special to The Cycle Yard team and our community as well," said Erica Zangardi from The Cycle Yard.
The Cycle Yard and Susquehanna Brewing Company hosted three rides in Jenkins Township, all back to back with 15-minute breaks in between.
"Loving to bring the bikes and the energy outside. We love the summer so anytime we can get outside and bring that high energy out here," said Zangardi.
Energy that was contagious for many of the riders.
"I literally woke up a half hour ago, and I'm already feeling hype and I'm out here, and I'm ready for it, it's super exciting," said Kellie Stoll of Kingston.
They say this is not only a way to learn about a new fitness opportunity in the area - but also to spread awareness for a huge community effort for a great cause.
"I think it brings a lot of new people out to it. I'm sure it's touching a lot of people that haven't known about it before. I had no idea about like Go Joe and St. Joseph's Center, and Erica did an awesome job of just like bringing out a whole new group of every year to get everybody involved and make some money for the cause," said Stoll.
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See Go Joe videos on YouTube: | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/outreach/go-joe/spinning-in-the-sun-for-go-joe-26-susquehanna-brewing-company-the-cycle-yard-cycling-bike-riding/523-14f817c1-1b8a-4f8d-abbe-31387c1538af | 2023-07-16T02:06:41 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/outreach/go-joe/spinning-in-the-sun-for-go-joe-26-susquehanna-brewing-company-the-cycle-yard-cycling-bike-riding/523-14f817c1-1b8a-4f8d-abbe-31387c1538af |
WEST ODESSA, Texas — 63,000 years ago this piece of land was just another piece of land.
That is until it was hit by something out of this world.
"They estimated this happened 63,000 years ago which was at the end of the Ice Age," Odessa Meteor Crater Museum curator Douglas Neatherlin said. "It was about 100 feet deep at the time of impact. And then when the water and everything kind of swished back in it filled in quite a bit and then over the years, it's been slowly filling back up. We're approximately six to eight feet deep depending on where you're standing at the time."
Despite it landing that long ago, it wasn’t first discovered until 1892.
"This was part of the Henderson Ranch," Neatherlin explained. "And he [Julius Henderson] was out here working with cattle and found a meteorite. He wasn't sure what it was. So he took it to a friend I guess in Austin, is what they told me and they figured out that it wasn't just a standard rock. It was a meteorite."
Nothing happened with it for a while…
...until the Depression.
A work camp was created in the area because they wanted to see if they could find more pieces of the meteorite.
"They found the large crater," Neatherlin said. "And as they were working on that, the very first meteor detector was invented from what I was told, and it was large enough it had to be on a plane. They flew over it and they discovered a second crater, the third and the fourth. And our location we have the first and second craters."
During the Vietnam War, nothing could really get done with it, so it got shut down.
"Until about 1988," Neatherlin said. "It got declared a National Natural Landmark."
And from there the landmark took off.
"In 2002, the Commissioners and a nonprofit got together to create a museum, the walking path and everything."
Originally about 450 feet across and 100 feet deep, it’s the second-largest crater in the United States, and it’s right here in Odessa.
Despite this, few West Texans know about the unique landmark.
"I grew up in this area and I had no idea it even existed," Neatherlin, originally from McCamey, Texas, said. "I still get people come out today that's 90years old that didn't even know it was out here."
For those who do check it out, they get to take in a true marvel of science.
And once you've explored the crater, you can learn more about the meteorites that created it in the museum.
"For a small little museum that we have, we actually have a very large unique collection of meteorites compared to most places," Neatherlin said.
A crater that many people don’t know about, filled with history and science you can’t even imagine. You might call it a hidden gem.
So consider taking a trip just a few miles down the road.
To experience history made 63,000 years ago. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/second-largest-crater-in-the-united-states-is-right-here-in-odessa-meteor/513-74e02066-273c-4f6a-b487-fa52c8d36cdd | 2023-07-16T02:20:00 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/second-largest-crater-in-the-united-states-is-right-here-in-odessa-meteor/513-74e02066-273c-4f6a-b487-fa52c8d36cdd |
SAN ANTONIO — Jay Juarez received two concerning calls on Tuesday. A man called from a local number, and knew both Juarez's name and some of his recent medical history, but wouldn't tell Juarez exactly where he was calling from.
"I said 'I don't know who you are and I don't know how you have my healthcare information,'" Juarez told KENS 5. "The reply was, 'we are the diabetes department.' I'm like, 'you are going to have to try harder than that.'"
Juarez tried to be polite but eventually hung up. The same individual then called him back 15 minutes later from another, likely spoofed, number. Juarez was then less polite.
"The second phone call wasn't a good one for them," Juarez said. "I didn't get any more calls after that."
Still, much of the information the caller had was accurate. Juarez didn't know exactly what was going on until he got a work email on Friday. That's when his employer's IT contractor informed him that his email, and some other information, had been found on the "dark web."
The source, said "HCA Healthcare." It's the same company that has had 11 million patient records exposed across 20 states.
Juarez later reviewed this list (scroll down to Texas) and discovered it included CareNow Urgent Care locations in Texas along with many other hospitals, specialists and clinics. He had visited a CareNow location just a few months before.
Juarez now hopes others in San Antonio review that same list and see if any of their health care professionals, or hospitals, are listed.
"People need to be aware that they have to protect themselves and look into this and make sure that their information is safe," Juarez said.
Juarez also said HCA Healthcare never notified him of the breach. He said he called HCA Healthcare Friday and was simply told he would be given a call back.
"I got routed to their ethics line. I filed a detailed complaint and they gave me a case number. The representative was not aware of the hack," Juarez said. "Even that is a concern."
The HCA Healthcare site states, "HCA Healthcare will offer credit monitoring and identity protection services, where appropriate. In the meantime, we encourage patients to remain vigilant in identifying calls, emails or SMS texts which appear to be spam or fraudulent. Additionally, patients should never open links or attachments sent from untrusted sources."
The site also states, "Beginning Monday, July 17, 2023 patients can call us at (888) 993-0010 to ask any general questions and to confirm the legitimacy of any communication from anyone claiming to be affiliated with HCA Healthcare."
Juarez said he will likely not wait for a response and will look at other identity theft protection options. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/was-your-healthcare-info-exposed-check-this-list-now/273-27a18534-700b-4371-80bc-c30acf7f0c45 | 2023-07-16T02:20:07 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/was-your-healthcare-info-exposed-check-this-list-now/273-27a18534-700b-4371-80bc-c30acf7f0c45 |
ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida researcher has discovered that vaping creates chemical reactions in the mouth that can destroy good bacteria while increasing germs that cause cavities, gum disease and cellular changes that can lead to cancer.
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Dr. Claudia Andl, of the UCF College of Medicine focuses her research on throat and mouth cancer and has broadened her efforts to help medicine better understand the dangers of vaping. ‘
According to Andl, tooth decay can lead to inflammation and gum disease, which causes the gums to retract and the teeth to loosen and, if untreated, fall out.
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Changes in the mouth’s bacterial environment may also increase risks for cancer, another aspect of Dr. Andl’s research. Normally, when individuals have healthy immune systems, the body recognizes the bacteria and kills it.
But Dr. Andl’s research shows that vaping suppresses the signaling that activates immune system, allowing the Staph bacteria to grow.
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“When there is no signal saying ‘Go kill the bad guy’ Staph can colonize the oral cavity, leading to long-term inflammation and that inflammation is associated with cancer,” she explained.
While the vaping-cancer link has been suspected for some time, it has been difficult to prove in part because cancers take so long to develop and vaping has been a recent trend, especially among young people who may not develop cancer for years.
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Despite laws that outlaw selling e-cigarettes to minors, 1 in 10 young people under 18 use vapes, according to the FDA and CDC, and a quarter of those use the digital smoking devices daily.
Meanwhile, an estimated 20 million adults smoke e-cigarettes, many in an attempt to quit smoking tobacco.
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PHOENIX — An inmate's death is under investigation at a Maricopa County jail, according to authorities.
In response to a 12News inquiry the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said a female inmate died on Saturday. The woman was found unresponsive at Estrella Jail at about 10:25 a.m.
"MCSO and Correctional Health Services staff provided CPR and other medical measures prior to Phoenix Fire arrival," said the sheriff's office.
The woman was later pronounced dead by responding fire personnel, according to the sheriff's office.
Jail crimes detectives are investigating the woman's death.
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ROSS TOWNSHIP. Pa. — One person was taken to a hospital after a rollover crash in Ross Township.
Allegheny County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to Union Avenue Extension and William Street at around 8:06 p.m. on Saturday.
Ross Township first responders said the vehicle rolled over.
An SUV was towed from a hillside.
The vehicle appeared to have sustained heavy damage to its front.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The Aliquippa community came together on Saturday to discuss youth violence and how to end it.
The rally came after the death of 15-year-old Davhea Sparrow who was shot and killed in Aliquippa last weekend.
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The organizer of the event, Rayetta Lee, said she hoped the event would allow people to come together and heal.
“It takes a village to raise a child and that’s what we want; to be the village, to raise these children because they’re lost,” said Lee.
Lee’s niece, Dee Walker, was killed in a shooting.
People walked down the street carrying signs with the names of others they knew who had been killed in instances of gun violence.
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PITTSBURGH — Despite an excellent start from Johan Oviedo, the Pittsburgh Pirates fell 3-1 to the San Francisco Giants at PNC Park on Saturday night.
David Bednar entered the game for Carmen Mlodzinski (1-2) with two on and one away in the eighth inning. After striking out J.D. Davis, Michael Conforto singled home a run and the Giants tacked on another run on the play on a Pirates’ misplay.
Pittsburgh had Conforto caught in between first and second, but Jason Delay committed a throwing error which allowed Joc Pederson to score to put the Giants up 3-1.
Both traded solo homers in the second inning. Mike Yastrzemski hit a solo homer in the top of the frame and Henry Davis hit a solo homer of his own in the bottom half of the inning. For Davis, it was his second-career home run.
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CASS COUNTY, Iowa — Two adults and one minor are dead following a head-on crash in Cass County on Friday, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.
The report said a truck driving northbound on Highway 71 near Troublesome Creek Road crossed the center line and hit a sedan headed south around 1 p.m. Friday. The head-on collision caused the car to end up in a ditch, and the truck rolled over.
The truck driver, 43-year-old Michael Warnaca of Exira, and the sedan driver, 46-year-old Erick Kerkman of North Liberty, died. A 15-year-old passenger also passed away.
Two boys, aged 10 and 12, were injured in the crash and taken to area hospitals.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Saturday morning, West Des Moines police said in a press release.
Police responded to reports of a crash on Interstate 80 at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the driver was traveling east at a high speed when they left the roadway and struck the Jordan Creek Bridge over the interstate.
The driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, died from their injuries.
Police say they do not believe any other vehicles were involved.
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ANDERSON, Ind. — The Anderson Police Department responded to a crash that killed two people Saturday afternoon.
The collision at the intersection of South Scatterfield Road and East 5th Street involved a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old from Anderson and two females in a small car, a spokesperson said.
All three were taken to nearby hospitals where the two people in the car succumbed to their injuries.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
This crash remains under investigation. Witnesses are asked to contact Sgt. Nick Durr at 765-648-6660.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Halifax Humane Society announced that all of the dogs brought to their new adoption center in the Volusia Mall found new homes on Saturday during their grand opening weekend.
According to social media post, the organization brought 19 dogs “to last us the weekend” at the center located inside of the mall at 1700 West International Speedway Blvd. in Daytona Beach.
With the weekend only half over, the Halifax Humane Society said they were working hard to find more adoptable dogs for Sunday.
“We invite you to visit us again tomorrow at our location in the Volusia Mall, right in the old Rack Room Shoes store. We can’t wait to see you and help you find your perfect companion.”
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Saturday was the official grand opening of the center which is scheduled to be open daily from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.
In addition to adopting a new furever friend, you can learn about donating and volunteering with the organization.
Their social media post read in part, “As the day draws to a close and we reflect on the overwhelming turnout at our Dog Adoption Center, we are filled with gratitude. The news that all of our dogs found loving homes today has touched our hearts deeply.”
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County commissioners on Thursday approved $712,820 in incentives for Honda Aircraft Co. to expand its local manufacturing operations.
The company has announced that it will develop the new 2600 model at its Piedmont Triad International Airport campus. The HondaJet 2600 would be the world’s first light jet capable of nonstop transcontinental flight across the United States and would accommodate up to 11 people.
Honda Aircraft intends to invest $55.7 million in the development of the new jet and will create 280 new jobs, with an average annual salary of $88,761. No new job would pay less than $15 per hour, according to Marvin Price of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.
The company has until Dec. 31, 2027 to fulfill its investment and job creation promises.
On Tuesday, the Greensboro City Council approved $420,000 in incentives for the company.
North Carolina, through its Job Development Investment Grant program, also has offered up to $3.4 million in performance-based incentives paid over 12 years. The state also included a $504,000 training grant from the N.C. Community College System. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/business/employment/hondjet-honda-aircraft-guilford-county-incentives-jobs-investment-economic/article_a1cf98b6-228c-11ee-b499-cf158093a9cd.html | 2023-07-16T03:08:59 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/business/employment/hondjet-honda-aircraft-guilford-county-incentives-jobs-investment-economic/article_a1cf98b6-228c-11ee-b499-cf158093a9cd.html |
The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced he will be stepping down from leading the Chicago civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded in 1971, the organization announced Friday.
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition will officially transfer leadership to Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III of Dallas, Texas as the organization's president.
“Reverend Jesse Jackson is officially pivoting from his role as president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition. His commitment is unwavering, and he will elevate his life’s work by teaching ministers how to fight for social justice and continue the freedom movement,” the organization said in a statement. “Rev. Jackson’s global impact and civil rights career will be celebrated this weekend at the 57th annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention, where his successor will be introduced.”
Jackson, who will turn 82 in October, has remained active in civil rights in recent years despite health setbacks. For the last 57 years, Rev. Jackson has led the Coalition which has global reach and impact. His decision is a result of his ongoing journey with Parkinson's disease.
"I am looking forward to this next chapter where I will continue to focus on economic justice, mentorship, and teaching ministers how to fight for social justice. I will still be very involved in the organization and am proud that we have chosen Rev. Dr. Haynes as my successor," said Reverend Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of the Rainbow Push Coalition.
He announced in 2017 that he had begun outpatient care for Parkinson’s disease two years earlier. In early 2021, he had gallbladder surgery and later that year was treated for COVID-19 including a stint at a physical therapy-focused facility. He was hospitalized again in November 2021 for a fall that caused a head injury.
Santita Jackson, one of his daughters, said in an interview that her father would not be vanishing. “While the flesh may not be willing, the spirit is,” she said, adding that she hoped her father would provide a living history. “Dr. King gave him his assignment and he’s been faithful to it in every iteration of his life. Many people have said Dr. King was the architect and Rev. Jackson was the builder.”
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Jackson broke with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1971 to form Operation PUSH — originally named People United to Save Humanity — a sweeping civil rights organization based on Chicago’s South Side.
The organization was later renamed the Rainbow PUSH Coalition with a mission ranging from encouraging corporations to hire more minorities to voter registration drives in communities of color. Its annual convention is set for this weekend in Chicago.
Jackson has long been a powerful voice in American politics.
Until Barack Obama’s election in 2008, Jackson was the most successful Black candidate for the U.S. presidency, winning 13 primaries and caucuses for the Democratic nomination in 1988.
He stood with the family of George Floyd at a memorial for the Black man murdered in 2020 by a white police officer, whose death forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism. Jackson also participated in COVID-19 vaccination drives to battle hesitancy in Black communities.
Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network, said in a statement that he had spoken to Jackson on Friday morning and “told him that we will continue to glean from him and learn from him and duplicate him in whatever our organizations and media platforms are. Because he has been an anchor for me and many others.”
Sharpton called Jackson his mentor, adding: “The resignation of Rev. Jesse Jackson is the pivoting of one of the most productive, prophetic, and dominant figures in the struggle for social justice in American history.”
The soon-to-be new president, Rev. Haynes, is a pastor, leader and social activist, engaged in preaching and fighting against racial injustice.
In a statement released Saturday, the organization stated, "Haynes has devoted his life to economic justice and empowerment in underserved communities and transforming the lives of the disenfranchised."
Dr. Haynes has served as a visionary and innovative senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas for the past 40 years. He considers himself a long-time student of Rev. Jackson and has spoken to and for Rainbow PUSH Coalition frequently.
"As a student of Rev. Jackson's, I am honored to be selected for this prestigious and important position. The role Rainbow PUSH Coalition plays today is just as critical as it was in 1963, when the organization was founded. Our communities need organizations like Rainbow PUSH to not only continue the fight for justice and equality, but to shepherd the next generation of advocates into the movement," said Reverend Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, incoming President of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Rev. Dr. Haynes will be formally introduced during the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's 57th annual conference during an event with Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, July 16 at 2 p.m. CT.
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In the latest effort to reverse a startling trend, this week, The Texas Department of State Health Services unveiled a Fentanyl Trends dashboard, showing just how many Texans the synthetic opioid has killed each year since 2014.
“Having the correct resources are very, very important to guide families through this journey of hell,” said Winning the Fight founder and executive director, Kathy O’Keefe.
O’Keefe first began the nonprofit Winning the Fight to provide drug education, support and necessary resources after her 18-year-old son Brett died from a heroin overdose in 2010.
In the years since trends have changed.
“Fentanyl we started seeing a little bit of. And then all of a sudden, it was just this blast that we had,” she said.
It’s a shift board member Kathy Travis witnessed firsthand.
“Jessica was just a beautiful young lady,” said Travis.
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Travis said her daughter Jessica first struggled with addiction in high school, using Adderall, Xanax and marijuana to cope with depression and anxiety.
After graduation, Jessica began using methamphetamines.
“She didn’t want to use drugs, but they were the thing that made her feel better, made her forget all of the things that bothered her and just made her feel normal,” she said.
After making several efforts to get clean, including 11 trips to rehab, Travis said Jessica began using again in January of 2021 while quarantined after a COVID exposure.
At 25 years old, Jessica died.
The medical examiner’s report showed what she thought was methamphetamine was laced with fentanyl.
“To find fentanyl in her blood system was just shocking to me because my daughter wouldn’t have done that. She didn’t want to die,” said Travis.
This new state data shows Jessica’s death was one of 1,645 fatal fentanyl poisonings that year.
By 2022, the number swelled to more than 2,161.
It also shows fentanyl poisonings now account for nearly 45% of all drug-related deaths. By comparison, fentanyl accounted for less than 12% of drug-related deaths in 2019.
“It’s not surprising, but it is scary,” said Travis.
This week, in a release from Governor Greg Abbott’s office, Abbott and other officials said the dashboard is part of an effort to ramp up efforts to combat the crisis.
“Measuring a problem is an important step in understanding and improving it,” said DSHS Commissioner Dr. Jennifer Shuford. “DSHS is in a unique position to analyze and share information about fentanyl-related deaths as part of Governor Abbott’s One Pill Kills campaign. I hope making this data easily accessible will allow Texas experts and leaders to continue to craft solutions to this deadly crisis.”
Advocates agree awareness is key.
“At least we have people trying, and they’re talking about it. They’re sure talking about it a lot more than they were last year, and I’m thankful,” said Travis.
When it comes to the numbers, the state warns 2023’s data lags.
Still, O’Keefe’s hopeful their efforts to educate are paying off, though the fight is far from over.
“I think we need to just keep talking about it,” said O’Keefe.
She added it will take a comprehensive approach to find a solution.
“We could use more resources. But regardless, we still have to look at the mental health because people substance use because it fills a void,” she said.
She said that includes increasing funding for treatment.
Come October, Winning the Fight will roll out a new program in four Denton County communities to educate parents of kids in the juvenile court system about addiction in hopes of reducing recidivism rates. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/advocates-say-new-texas-fentanyl-dashboard-is-one-step-towards-ending-crisis/3296709/ | 2023-07-16T03:12:54 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/advocates-say-new-texas-fentanyl-dashboard-is-one-step-towards-ending-crisis/3296709/ |
District Court turmoil; Warwick land dispute; world-class RI pizza: Top stories this week
- Chace family hostilities erupt anew with a lawsuit challenging deathbed changes to a will.
- Remembering the wit, wisdom and heart of longtime Journal sports columnist Bill Reynolds, who died Thursday at age 78.
- Freshwater swimming spots where you can cool off without fighting beach traffic.
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Here's a look at some of The Providence Journal's most-read stories for the week of July 9, supported by your subscriptions.
- The Chace family's legal feud over a $70 million trust has spawned another lawsuit – the second in two years. At issue this time for one faction of the prominent Rhode Island family: deathbed changes to the will of Malcolm “Kim” Chace III that doubled his wife's annual allowance.
- The Rhode Island sports world lost a giant on Thursday with the death of longtime Providence Journal columnist Bill Reynolds. Mark Patinkin assesses his legacy, as a basketball player, a journalist and a mentor and cheerleader for countless young athletes, many from disadvantaged backgrounds. For what it's worth, here's my personal favorite: his 2017 Mother's Day tribute to his one-of-a-kind mom.
- Want to take a dip to cool off? If you're not up for the full beach experience, or worried about tangling with a Portuguese man-of-war, check out these freshwater swimming spots.
- Catch up on which players with Rhode Island ties were tapped in this year's MLB Draft, as well as other high school and college sports news, at providencejournal.com/sports.
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'Dark cloud' over District Court: Ex-clerk alleges coverups, dysfunction and retaliation
For more than two decades, Nicholas R. Cote worked as a “fixer” in District Court, helping to smooth out staffing issues and resolve data entry backlogs.
That is, until he resigned Nov. 28 for reasons that "will remain an internal personnel matter," a courts spokeswoman said.
Now, Cote tells of blurred lines between his work and personal life, undertaking construction projects for District Court Chief Judge Jeanne E. LaFazia at her Little Compton property, often for little or no pay or reimbursement for supplies. He also tells of racist, sexist and homophobic commentary by a former top District Court administrator being, in essence, swept under the rug until he, too, resigned for reasons that "will remain an internal personnel matter."
Courts: 'Dark cloud' over District Court: Ex-clerk alleges coverups, dysfunction and retaliation
How did a Warwick councilwoman acquire land next to her house? The neighbors have questions
WARWICK — In the heart of bustling Oakland Beach, a vacant lot sits next to the home of longtime Warwick City Councilwoman Donna Travis and her husband, William Travis. For years, it's resembled an extension of their backyard.
Until fairly recently, the parcel belonged to the Oakland Beach Real Estate Owners Association, a neighborhood organization in which both Travises have held leadership roles. In 2021, a quitclaim deed was filed with the city, stating that the association was giving the land — with an assessed value of $65,700 — to the Travises.
Now, the neighborhood association's new leaders are calling that transfer into question, saying the process wasn't aboveboard. The Travises insist everything was done legally, call their critics out-of-state troublemakers, and say they have no intention of giving the land back.
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RI's new beach access law creates controversy, confusion and lawsuits
After a multiyear fight to enact a shoreline access law, the last few weeks have given Rhode Islanders a taste of what it actually looks like in practice.
For beach-access advocates — and police departments that had struggled to adjudicate disputes — the law offers some much-needed clarity on what is and isn't public. But waterfront property owners who are suing to overturn it say it's turned private backyards into public beaches, lowering their home values.
Meanwhile, plenty of people don't realize that the law has changed at all. And activist Scott Keeley is determined to change that.
Politics: RI's new beach access law creates controversy, confusion and lawsuits
Want to try one of the best pizzerias in the world? Head to Wakefield
A Rhode Island pizzeria has made the prestigious ranking of the 50 Best in the United States. Pasquale’s Pizzeria Napoletana in Wakefield was No. 12 on the list that was released last week by 50 Top Pizza USA. Last year, owner Pasquale Illiano was No. 33, and he rose substantially higher on the rankings this year.
By virtue of being in the top 15, his restaurant will now be added to 50 Top Pizza’s ranking of the 100 best pizzerias in the world. Illiano will be in Naples, Italy — the city of his birth — on Sept. 13 for the unveiling of that international list.
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Rhode Islanders are in the minority that say grinder. Here's the story behind the sandwich
What do you call a long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce and other toppings?
You might know it as a sub, a hoagie or maybe a hero, depending on where you grew up. But, as Rhode Islanders and many New Englanders know, there’s another word: grinder. (Or, as it's more commonly pronounced, "grindah.") Having received many questions about where the term grinder is used and the origin of the term, What and Why RI thought it was time to get some answers.
What and Why RI: Rhode Islanders are in the minority that say grinder. Here's the story behind the sandwich
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HOOVER, Ala. — Police in Alabama searched Friday for a 25-year-old woman who vanished after telling a family member that she was stopping to check on a child she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway.
Hoover police say Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell called 911 Thursday night and then a family member to say she saw a young child walking on the side of I-459. When officers arrived at the location, they found Russell's car and her cell phone but were unable to find her or a child in the area.
Lt. Daniel Lowe said the family member on the phone with Russell lost contact with her even though the line remained open. He said a single witness reported possibly seeing a gray vehicle and a man standing outside of Carlee's vehicle, but they have no additional information.
Police asked people to report any information they might have about her disappearance.
“No piece of information is too small in this investigation,” Lowe told reporters Friday.
Lowe said police are pursing all possibilities in the disappearance. ”We’re certainly leaving nothing off the table,” he said when asked if investigators believe she was abducted.
Family members organized a search in the area.
“We’re just gonna scour the earth,” Russell’s dad, Carlos Russell, told WVTM. “There’s no stopping us.”
Talitha Russell told al.com that her daughter was headed home after leaving work and stopping to get food. She was on the phone with her brother’s girlfriend when she said she saw a child on the roadside.
“My son’s girlfriend heard her asking the child, ‘Are you Ok?' She never heard the child say anything but then she heard our daughter scream,’’ Talitha Russell said. “From there, all you hear on her phone is background noise from the interstate.”
Police said an anonymous donor offered a $20,000 reward for Russell's safe return and another $5,000 reward is available through Crime Stoppers.
Hoover is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Birmingham.
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Here are the numbers for the Powerball drawing for July 15, 2023
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The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $875 million. The cash value is $441.9 million. The winning numbers were drawn on Saturday, July 15, 2023.
Powerball winning numbers
The winning numbers for Saturday's drawing were 2-9-43-55-57 and the Powerball is 18. The Power Play is 2.
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The next Powerball drawing is Monday, July 17. Drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/07/15/powerball-winning-numbers-july-15-2023-drawing/70410873007/ | 2023-07-16T03:32:03 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/07/15/powerball-winning-numbers-july-15-2023-drawing/70410873007/ |
Dog attack sends Phoenix police officer and man to hospital; dog shot, killed in Phoenix
A man and a Phoenix police officer were attacked by a dog on Saturday morning, resulting in the officer and men being taken to the hospital. The dog was shot and killed by an officer, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
Around 7:45 a.m., officers responded to a house in the area of 7th Avenue and Atlanta Avenue regarding a loose animal call. Police said that the call indicated that a dog had attacked a man inside of the house and that the dog was still not under control, according to a news release.
When an officer arrived, the dog attacked the officer, police said. The officer then shot and killed the dog. The dog's breed has not been confirmed by police. Both the man and the officer were taken to the hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. Police said that both the man and the officer have since been released from the hospital, according to the news release.
The investigation of the incident is ongoing, according to police. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/07/15/dog-attack-sends-officer-and-man-to-hospital-dog-shot-killed/70417495007/ | 2023-07-16T03:32:09 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/07/15/dog-attack-sends-officer-and-man-to-hospital-dog-shot-killed/70417495007/ |
EMERY, S.D. — There will be a change of scenery for Bridgewater-Emery School District next year.
And officials are excited for the new look.
New classrooms are being constructed to give students more room to raise chickens and practice taxidermy. The two unusual educational opportunities have been in a shared classroom — a thing of the past when the project is complete.
Bridgewater-Emery is constructing a new building for its agriculture and industry programs this summer with the help of state grants. The new classrooms — coming after Bridgewater-Emery’s recent increases to its ag and industrial student numbers — are bright signs, amidst a statewide workforce shortage.
“In my classroom the new facilities are going to leave a huge impact," said Alex Toupal, Bridgewater-Emery’s ag teacher, in an interview with the Mitchell Republic.
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The building will house ag and industrial programs of study, each of which will receive its own classroom and workshop.
The ag classroom will feature welding booths and a plasma cutter for students, as well as space for tractor repair equipment that is currently housed off-site. The industrial classroom will feature shop tables and welding equipment.
The programs of study are part of the statewide Career and Technical Education (CTE) program, created to give students experience in high-skill, high-demand fields. With a focus on career-specific training, they have been touted by many to be part of the solution to a statewide workforce shortage. Bridgewater-Emery offers classes in five of the 16 concentrated CTE fields of study the state offers — business, family and consumer sciences, information technology, agriculture and industrial arts.
Toupal said that the ag classroom is a bit hectic in its current state, limiting hands-on student learning.
"Right now, it's all shared within one big classroom and it's a mess," Toupal said.
He explained the current shortage of classrooms means that multiple disciplines have to share the ag classroom back-to-back. The room may see taxidermy, baking and chicken raising — within the span of a single day. That tight schedule is limiting hand-on learning. With so many subjects using the classroom he often has to clear off the tables as soon as his classes are done, making hands-on learning projects harder to fit in.
Maximizing hands-on learning is one of the keys to the success of CTE program courses, said Christena Schultz, principal of Bridgewater-Emery High School. Since CTE classes often focus on workforce-specific development, much of the learning is done through hands-on experience.
"Hands on learning provides students opportunities to expand understanding and thinking outside the box," Schultz said. "We really are looking at how we can best equip our students to be skilled for the workforce."
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She continued, stressing the benefits of the new building.
“We were just really in need of a building to be able to expand those hands-on lab related experiences for students,” Schultz said. “In our current ag classroom, some of the labs that were taking place right within the classroom were literally having chickens, taxidermy, engine repairs — so, not the most conducive to students."
The new classrooms will only have program-specific classes, giving teachers as much room to do hands-on learning as possible.
No longer, either, will baking be done in the same room as the chicken raising, as the family and consumer science class will move into the old ag classroom.
The new classrooms will also cut down on needing to bus students off-site for classes. Currently, the school stores its tractor repair machinery off-site in Bridgewater, which requires ag-mechanic students to be bussed there during school hours.
But with the added space, they will be able to keep that machinery in the classroom.
"Now when all of that equipment comes over here, we will have more work time,” Toupal said.
Bridgewater-Emery workforce pipeline going strong, aided by legislation
The expansion comes as the number of students taking classes in agriculture and industry-specific CTE programs at Bridgewater-Emery have shot up. Since the 2020-21 school year, its ag-student numbers have risen from 42 to 58, and its industrial student numbers have increased from 17 to 24.
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"Ag student numbers have really jumped up since January 2020," said Toupal, who will begin his fourth year at the school this fall. Schultz agreed.
With a widespread workforce shortage that is affecting many issues across the state, CTE programs continue to be a key part of growing the workforce pipeline.
"Career and Technical education provides young people hands-on learning opportunities and helps them connect their classroom experience to their options for education and careers after graduation" said then-state Secretary of Education Tiffany Sanderson, in the 2022 press release that accompanied Bridgewater-Emery's grant.
The building’s creation is largely due to SB-235, a 2013 piece of state legislation created for "the purpose of building and reinvesting in South Dakota's economy and to create high quality jobs.”
Signed into law during an ongoing workforce shortage, one of its provisions is to incentivize schools to fund programs in fields in high demand around the state, but which require specialized, technical know-how. It has done that by setting up the Workforce Education Fund, an annually renewing pool of money that grants money to schools to make infrastructure improvements that help their workforce pipeline.
The initial $225,000 Bridgewater-Emery received last year in April 2022 was a grant from that fund, one of nine it awarded last year. This year, five recipients were announced.
With a combined effort led by Connie Whistler — Bridgewater-Emery's CTE team leader — Toupal, Schultz and other faculty members succeeded in obtaining the $225,000 grant
After the reception of the state grant, Toupal said that other grantors followed suit. Since last year's Workforce Education Fund grant, they’ve received a Cargill Cares grant, as well as a couple others from local sources.
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“The Workforce Education grant was our biggest one. Getting that one helped kickstart all of our other ones. And we kind of got to throw that one into all of our other grant applications,” Toupal said. He also said that in addition to grants, they have also received donations from local citizens.
With construction going on this summer, the school hopes to fully hold classes in the new building by mid-October, with a big unveiling for the school board at the start of the 2024 calendar year.
"We all know that our workforce in South Dakota right now is very much in need of these types of skilled employees," Schultz said. "The better the high school training experience we can give them, the better employee they're going to be in those skill specific positions that South Dakota is in need of." | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/ag-industrial-cte-classrooms-coming-to-bridgewater-emery | 2023-07-16T03:33:33 | 0 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/ag-industrial-cte-classrooms-coming-to-bridgewater-emery |
WAXAHACHIE, Texas — An AMBER Alert issued Saturday for an 11-year-old Waxahachie girl has been discontinued after she was found safe, Waxahachie police said.
The girl is now in protective custody, police added.
The girl had previously last been seen around 8 p.m. July 14 in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in southern Dallas, according to the Waxahachie Police Department (WPD). Waxahachie police told WFAA they received information overnight that confirmed the girl had been abducted and that her well-being was at serious risk.
More Texas headlines: | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-dallas-texas/287-17568705-c317-4438-9770-4c5eceff4969 | 2023-07-16T03:34:54 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-dallas-texas/287-17568705-c317-4438-9770-4c5eceff4969 |
NEW ORLEANS — A former employee at a T-Mobile store in New Orleans was arrested after being accused of swapping out sim cards in customers’ cell phones and selling the stolen cards to scammers who used them to steal bank account information.
As The Times-Picayune reports, Tamber Blackmore, 21, was arrested on 32 counts of access device fraud and 32 counts of identity theft. Blackmore was an employee at the T-Mobile store at 5365 Tchoupitoulas Street, where the alleged thefts happened.
Criminal Court documents say the store’s manager found a spreadsheet with the alleged incidents the cards were stolen from customers’ phones. The spreadsheet showed the thefts happened from May 21 to July 11, according to the documents reported by The Times-Picayune.
The store manager handed over the spreadsheet and surveillance video of Blackmore allegedly using a store tablet to commit the fraud to investigators.
On Thursday, a Magistrate Court Commissioner set Blackmore's bond at $32,000.
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Three people have been confirmed dead and search and rescue teams are searching for several more after severe flooding in the Washington Cross area Saturday.
At approximately 5:30 p.m. a torrential downpour caused flooding in Upper Mayfield near the Washington Cross area, officials said.
When emergency personnel arrived in the area they found several vehicles in high water and rescue attempts started to extract drivers and passengers from vehicles.
Search and rescue crews are still actively searching for several missing people at this time, officials reported.
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Due to the torrential rains and flooding, the following roads were heavily damaged and are impassable. It is anticipated that they will be closed for an extended period of time.
The roads include:
- River Road, which was heavily damaged between Mt. Eyre Road and Woodside Road.
- Taylorsville Rd between Mt. Eyre Rd and Woodside Rd.
- Taylorsville Road is closed between Maplevale and Highland Road at this time due to roadway damage, bridge damage and debris in the roadway.
It is anticipated that these roads will also be closed for an extended period of time.
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Multiple counties emergency personnel have responded to the area due to the downed trees and broken roadways.
Officials are asking for the public's help to stay away from the area so the damage can be assessed and repaired.
Operations are expected to continue through the night. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/3-dead-several-missing-and-road-closures-after-flooding-in-washington-crossing-area/3605029/ | 2023-07-16T03:50:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/3-dead-several-missing-and-road-closures-after-flooding-in-washington-crossing-area/3605029/ |
Nine people were taken to the hospital after a boat they were on crashed on the Schuylkill River Saturday evening.
Around 7:15 p.m. police started receiving calls about a boat crash in the area of the 1300 block of Schuylkill Avenue, police said.
When police arrived they saw a boat had crashed into a pillar supporting the Grays Ferry Avenue bridge.
There were nine people on board the boat at the time of the crash, including an infant and a toddler. Police say none of the people on board, including the children, were hurt.
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As a precaution, all of the passengers were transported to the hospital.
The boat broke in two pieces causing the occupants to have to hang on to what was left of the boat that was floating, police said.
Police added the driver of the boat was arrested on DUI charges.
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At this time authorities have not said what led to the boat crashing. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/infant-and-toddler-among-9-in-boat-crash-on-schuylkill-river-drive-arrested-for-dui/3605005/ | 2023-07-16T03:51:04 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/infant-and-toddler-among-9-in-boat-crash-on-schuylkill-river-drive-arrested-for-dui/3605005/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an economic development Statement of Intent with the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and Foreign Nationals Abroad Olivier Becht while in Paris on Friday.
The stop was the final on a European tour for Abbott, his wife, First Lady Cecilia Abbott, and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson to promote economic partnerships between Texas and various European nations.
“Collaborating with our economic partners around the globe will ensure the Texas economy continues to flourish. By signing this statement of intent, it will encourage foreign business investment, promote economic development projects and increase trade opportunities between Texas and France. Forging strong economic bonds with reliable partners is more important now than ever. Texas is proud to have that strong partnership with France. Working together, we will bring more economic development opportunities to Texas from France than ever before,” Gov. Abbott said in a statement.
Abbott was joined by a Texas delegation that included the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism Executive Director Adriana Cruz and Texas Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors Vice Chairman Arun Agarwal.
France was the last stop in Abbott's economic development mission, which included trips to Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The delegation participated in a total of 20 meetings and events during the five-day trip. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 | 2023-07-16T03:54:27 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-signs-agreement-with-france/269-4bb7bde7-260b-4639-b7a4-abf2bbe11ef4 |
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